Am I the only one who thinks that Google is trying to replay the whole dot-com bubble by themselves? When is Google Pet Supplies coming out? Will Google buy all the commercials in the next Super Bowl?
Granted, I'd be happier if the cell phone use culture was adjusted dramatically, especially use while driving and while in quiet environments, but crap science like this just pisses me off.
Highway accident and death rates have fallen steadily throughout the cell-phone era. If you've got some evidence showing that cell phone use while driving is really causing accidents, let's hear it. Or is this just "crap science"?
That's sad, as I used to like SUSE back around 2000. I guess we can expect the same thing to happen to Google someday...the older a company gets, the more it gets taken over by lawyers and abandons any early ideals.
For me, the greatest appeal of google was the lack of ad images (and it still is). Most of the web world still hasn't quite learned this lesson: don't annoy people.
Back in the 70's I was a student operator working on a campus mainframe. One time all the other operators happened to be on vacation at the same time, so I wound up working for 19 hours straight. Most of this time was spent changing paper on a printer every 15 minutes. Halfway through the night, the printer cover stuck open, so I spent the next eight hours listening to it clack away at 110 decibels. At least it kept me awake. I got $1.95 an hour for this job.
My sympathy for somebody doing phone support for Google is therefore quite limited. Boy, what a weak article...
Fischer's greatest legacy was probably his amazing winning streak of 20 consecutive games, during the Interzonal tournament and Candidates matches leading up to the world championship match with Spassky. This may never be equalled at such a high level, especially in a game where draws are so common.
Presumably Tom Brady will never wind up in a Japanese prison fighting extradition to the US for consorting with arms dealers in Yugoslavia.
But AFAIK all he ever did was rant and talk. Not exactly someone you wish dead. In a word, "Mostly Harmless". He played in a match in Yugoslavia sponsored by a criminal financier, Jedzimir Vasiljevic, thus lending legitimacy to the latter's pyramid schemes and arms dealing, and arguably making the early-90's mess in the Balkans worse. Not harmless at all.
I'm not exactly answering your question, but in my experience nothing helps you learn about somebody else's code like having to find and fix bugs in it. Just diving in with a specific goal in mind. The next best thing is having somebody who's familiar with it draw you a diagram of the overall structure. Comments in the program, or external documentation, are usually too much to hope for.
From FTA:
more than 50% of respondents described those teen and 20-something employees as the "toughest generation to manage." Generation Xers (ages 32 to 42 years old) placed second with 17% of respondents saying they pose a management challenge. Hey, that means 50-ish programmers like me should be highly sought after!
Unnatural radio transmissions would stand out against the background radiation and give us a sense that another civilization is there. As technology advances, our radio transmissions are looking more and more like background noise (tighter encoding, less redundancy). Also, a more advanced civilization would probably all have cable TV.
The first computer I ever used was a Digi-Comp, which you programmed by putting little pieces of drinking straw on pegs and working a mechanical lever to "clock" it. My first "electronic" computer was a PDP-8, which was quite modern and even had a Fortran compiler (although my program had to be saved to paper tape). I shudder to think how long a paper tape would have to be to store 4 GB of information.
This discussion reminds me of "A Matter of Bandwidth" by Lauren Weinstein, which appeared in the April, 1999 CACM. A memorable section of that article:
Some early MT researchers had advocated omission of the final ``dissolution'' step in the teleportation process, citing various metaphysical concerns. However, the importance of avoiding the long-term continuance of both the source and target objects was clearly underscored in the infamous ``Thousand Clowns'' incident at the Bent Fork National Laboratory in 1979. For similar reasons, use of multicast protocols for teleportation is contraindicated except in highly specialized (and mostly classified) environments.
Apple and Sun are a very small % of the computer using population, and not a good dataset do they make.
There are millions of Macs out there, and growing. But they're harder to compromise by design. The elusive "Mac virus threat" remains largely a marketing device for Symantec.
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Am I the only one who thinks that Google is trying to replay the whole dot-com bubble by themselves? When is Google Pet Supplies coming out? Will Google buy all the commercials in the next Super Bowl?
Does that question interest you?
Airbags don't prevent accidents.
An anecdote about your wife is really quality science.
Granted, I'd be happier if the cell phone use culture was adjusted dramatically, especially use while driving and while in quiet environments, but crap science like this just pisses me off.
Highway accident and death rates have fallen steadily throughout the cell-phone era. If you've got some evidence showing that cell phone use while driving is really causing accidents, let's hear it. Or is this just "crap science"?
We often go to the customers themselves and see what they want.
Well, at least since they laid off Tom Smykowski.
Since Fortify is a security firm, it's obviously in their best interest to have everybody using 100% Microsoft products.
Also, we used infrared light instead of the normal red light to make the color composite images, and that makes the land masses much more visible.
Sigh...everything's gotta be special effects these days...
MS-DOS 2.1.
That's sad, as I used to like SUSE back around 2000. I guess we can expect the same thing to happen to Google someday...the older a company gets, the more it gets taken over by lawyers and abandons any early ideals.
I could show you a picture of it, and you'd probably have better a than 16% chance of guessing. (Or you could just look at my profile.)
I'll guess...New York City, without even looking at the pictures that should get me in that ballpark.
For me, the greatest appeal of google was the lack of ad images (and it still is). Most of the web world still hasn't quite learned this lesson: don't annoy people.
Back in the 70's I was a student operator working on a campus mainframe. One time all the other operators happened to be on vacation at the same time, so I wound up working for 19 hours straight. Most of this time was spent changing paper on a printer every 15 minutes. Halfway through the night, the printer cover stuck open, so I spent the next eight hours listening to it clack away at 110 decibels. At least it kept me awake. I got $1.95 an hour for this job.
My sympathy for somebody doing phone support for Google is therefore quite limited. Boy, what a weak article...
#11 on the worst job list: screening stories for Slashdot.
Maybe a New Zealander who does phone support to the US?
Anyway, it's April 1st over most of the world by now...
Posted by CmdrTaco on 01:40 AM -- Tuesday April 01 2008
Not for me.
You insomniac Siberians must be having a good laugh about this one.
I think this story arrived a day early.
Fischer's greatest legacy was probably his amazing winning streak of 20 consecutive games, during the Interzonal tournament and Candidates matches leading up to the world championship match with Spassky. This may never be equalled at such a high level, especially in a game where draws are so common. Presumably Tom Brady will never wind up in a Japanese prison fighting extradition to the US for consorting with arms dealers in Yugoslavia.
I'm not exactly answering your question, but in my experience nothing helps you learn about somebody else's code like having to find and fix bugs in it. Just diving in with a specific goal in mind. The next best thing is having somebody who's familiar with it draw you a diagram of the overall structure. Comments in the program, or external documentation, are usually too much to hope for.
Ouch, I think I hurt my back laughing...
The first computer I ever used was a Digi-Comp, which you programmed by putting little pieces of drinking straw on pegs and working a mechanical lever to "clock" it. My first "electronic" computer was a PDP-8, which was quite modern and even had a Fortran compiler (although my program had to be saved to paper tape). I shudder to think how long a paper tape would have to be to store 4 GB of information.
There are millions of Macs out there, and growing. But they're harder to compromise by design. The elusive "Mac virus threat" remains largely a marketing device for Symantec.