Well lets do the math: 1 Trilion copyrights infrigers (birds on earth) X 10 000 infrigement counts per infriger (songs by a bird during its lifetime) X 1 USD per infrigement = 1 million billions USD
That's losses endured by Rumblefish because of birds. Looks like suing the birds is a sound(hah!) business plan.
So what you're saying is that we should rename our High/Medium/Low priorities as: Need/Want/Like. Its all about semantics. Oh, and about ass kissing:) Not far from the truth.
Now, to get serious, projects that are higher than the level of a "hello world" program are always political. The assigned/official priority are just for looks, the real priority is... ethereal, being re-decided perhaps every day, for each person.
I know you all want to reach that level when you just at those lovely priority numbers and make your decision based on a simple comparison like 2 3. Trying to simplify the problem is human and somehow understandable. But its still lazy.
No, you need to handle conflicts on a case by case basis. Again. And again. Forever. There is no way out. That is your job and you have to do it.
Pioneer went BOOM long time ago, with many others. RIP Kuro/sigh Sony display sold to Samsung. Panasonic moving its factories to China and focusing on cutting costs and zero R&D, after the QA disaster at the Czech republic factory (most 2011 plasmas had insane green tint and fluctuating brightness).
The only real players left in the TV business are Samsung and LG and they are both operating on heavy losses on TV lines. Not only we will not come up with new stuff, we may even go back a few steps(CRT.../shivers). Its going to be ugly. Real ugly.
Very insightful. This is natural. As part of their internal optimizer, most people want the most with the minimum amount of effort. If possible, everything for free. Now. I'm so tired of kids thinking they are somehow entitled to everything, for just being born.
But this is not something new, most people are shortsighted, and that include most of Slashdot's audience. Those few who actually take the effort to think a bit into the future will always be in advantage, and those who are used to receive everything for free will be paralyzed when they hit a real problem.
On the other hand, we have to keep in mind this is media, and media is not about cold, absolute and truthful information. Its about entertainment. People come here to be entertained, to have fun, not to listen to uncomfortable truths. Lies and misinformation are ok, fun must prevail at all costs.
These kind of comments will always be unpopular, thus modded down into oblivion, even if they are in fact insightful. This is where democracy fails. I'll join you in -1 hell. Fuck stupidity!
It is mission critical to have a holistic integration on next generation value-added enterprise, while eating your own dogfood and leveraging the core granular competencies to bring the sustainability to the customers.
Sorry to disillusion you, but people really need to understand just how little power the 99% has.
That's redundant, during the entire history, a very small amount of people had the most power. Only kids(of all ages) and communists dream about equal rights and/or power. They go kill the rich guys, take their money, and take their places as the new rich guys. It happened a milion times in history. Nothing new here.
While I concur with your conclusion that this specific patent sucks, you much be also painfully aware that its also much more easier to find faults with other people solutions than finding your own solution.
No matter what you do, people will find ways to screw with your procedures, organisation, efforts and goals. Many people range from innocent idiots to some really insidious monkeys. Sometimes its better to implement a weak solution, monitor results, handle the extremes manually and adjust the solution dynamically. Handling it entirely manually can result in huge costs of micromanaging.
Evaluating people(not just programmers) has always been a problem. But not doing anything is not a solution.
The nice thing about academia in particular is that it is relatively easy to move from department to department, college to college, or to any central IT unit if you find yourself in an unpleasant situation due to personalities, changes in management, etc.
The keyword is "relatively".
From my 15 years experience, the easy move from department to department is nothing short of dreams/lies/advertising. In practical use, performing such move requires huge amounts of politics, networking and influence. If you already are good at those, you may as well aim for the CEO position. If you are not good with those types of skills (probably most of Slashdot audience), on such request you get the "finger". I.E. responses like "we actually need you here", "there aren't any other positions available that fits your expertise", or any other politically correct "finger".
Its much more easier to actually find yourself a whole new fresh job, at least there you start with a clean slate, unpolluted by internal politics. The funny part is that when you finally actually find a new job and you tell them you are leaving, they suddenly have available options for you. Slimmy fuckers.
don't pretend that economic incentive isn't the primary reason why we look for jobs.
You are correct. But I hope you realize that's the same exact reason why the answer "Because I need a paycheck" is completely redundant. There are multiple reasons why you want a job/that job. Its pointless to discuss the obvious one, that everyone has.
Of course your main reason is that you want money. But that should not be the ONLY reason. I mean, for that same amount of money, do you even care if you have to clean up toilets or develop a complex software architecture in your favorite programming language? If your answer is that you don't care, then I wouldn't hire you either.
then again, its a horrible time for job seekers right now. they have us by the shorties, as there is NO bargaining and NO unions to help us keep the big co's in check and in their place.
Or maybe there is never a bad time to blame it on the economy(or anyone else except yourself).
Actually, there is plenty of place for bargaining. I survived 2 major economic crisis's and I never had problem finding a job. The only variable was the amount of money I would get paid. Last time, a few months ago, I applied at 25 jobs and I've got 24 responses with job interviews schedules, resulting in 5 concrete final job offers. On a total of 2 weeks duration the whole ordeal.
I fkin negotiated to the last penny with the bastards, to a such insane level that my initial skip manager hated me for that(good thing shes gone from the company now, hehe).
You know something, if you are good at what you're doing, its YOU that have THEM by the balls. But be sure to scale your expectations to your real market value, not on some fairy tale place you would like to have fun and get paid.
Let me know when Firefox make tabs independent. Having one tab freeze the entire Firefox made me move to Chrome. It happened WAY too often. Oh, and the crashes.
Cargill: [gets out five files] Well, I've narrowed your choices down to 5 unthinkable options. Each will cause untold misery and-- President: [points to the third file] I pick #3. Cargill: You don't even wanna read them first? President: I was elected to lead, not to read. #3!
Obviously the "no sue" provision cannot be enforced since its illegal. In any country. They've put it there to intimidate some people. For them, its all about the bottom line. If even 5% of people get intimidated and they don't sue Sony because of that clause, its a win for them.
And Sony is not the only company that does stuff like this.
The only way to get rid of such crap are suits like this one. If they realize such provisions are biting their ass causing losses instead of guaranteed wins, they will stop putting them.
Reasonable price is subject to permanent change. And not just on demand/offer, but something else too: customer base.
1. A couple of decades ago an hour of entertainment was selling quite nice for 30-50$ or more.
2. Now some people consider 0.99$ for an hour to be fair game.
3. In 20 years, most Chinese and Indians will get Internet access (after shelter, food, electricity and computers). When your potential audience is 10 billion and there are decent distribution networks I bet your ass it will be lucrative to sell an hour of good entertainment for even as low as 0.01$.
Actual numbers don't matter, you get the point:)
With time, even if people have more and more money the price is dropping. I believe "reasonable price" has nothing to do with pirates or why they pirate. A lower price may sell more units, indeed, but not because people pirate less.
Actually, Sweden has quite a huge surface (450 000 km2) with a population of just 9.4 millions, making it 155th country in the world by density. By the way, US is 143th by density.
No, population density is not the reason. Now, America, stop searching for excuses and go work on your infrastructure !
Since perfect random is not achievable from theoretical point of view, I believe most practical application don't need this level of unknown random, including crypto. There are more cheap ways to provide more than decent randoms. At least most of those "lesser" randoms(math oriented sources) have measurable level of complexity. These almost... religious ways of obtaining a random number can be overthrown any moment by a new physics discovery.
Phhhsh, physicians and your imprecise science. I believe you guys are throwing the term "unknowable" a bit lightly. I'm pretty sure its knowable, and even predictable, just very very VERY complicated. But not infinitely complicated. Therefore I demand you provide a rigorous demonstration that the process of it is unknowable(or unpredictable, exclude the semantic piss)
I remember very clearly a theorem during college that was proven beyond doubt is demonstrable, but was never demonstrated yet. Mathematics FTW!
I think the time has come and gone. Full SSDs are cheap, fast and lately even in high capacities. They are here to stay. Good bye platters!
Seagate needs to get on board and ditch the monstrosities that nobody wants. The link to the article is dead. It looks CNET removed/moved the Seagate advertisement... ups, I mean the article.
Slashdot Mirror
Not to mention that amount of money could solve the global economy crisis. ...
Ok ok, I'll go
Well lets do the math:
1 Trilion copyrights infrigers (birds on earth)
X
10 000 infrigement counts per infriger (songs by a bird during its lifetime)
X
1 USD per infrigement
=
1 million billions USD
That's losses endured by Rumblefish because of birds. Looks like suing the birds is a sound(hah!) business plan.
So what you're saying is that we should rename our High/Medium/Low priorities as: Need/Want/Like. Its all about semantics. Oh, and about ass kissing :) Not far from the truth.
Now, to get serious, projects that are higher than the level of a "hello world" program are always political. The assigned/official priority are just for looks, the real priority is ... ethereal, being re-decided perhaps every day, for each person.
I know you all want to reach that level when you just at those lovely priority numbers and make your decision based on a simple comparison like 2 3. Trying to simplify the problem is human and somehow understandable. But its still lazy.
No, you need to handle conflicts on a case by case basis. Again. And again. Forever. There is no way out. That is your job and you have to do it.
Indeed, this is a troubled business line.
Pioneer went BOOM long time ago, with many others. RIP Kuro /sigh
Sony display sold to Samsung.
Panasonic moving its factories to China and focusing on cutting costs and zero R&D, after the QA disaster at the Czech republic factory (most 2011 plasmas had insane green tint and fluctuating brightness).
The only real players left in the TV business are Samsung and LG and they are both operating on heavy losses on TV lines. ... /shivers). Its going to be ugly. Real ugly.
Not only we will not come up with new stuff, we may even go back a few steps(CRT
Very insightful. This is natural. As part of their internal optimizer, most people want the most with the minimum amount of effort. If possible, everything for free. Now. I'm so tired of kids thinking they are somehow entitled to everything, for just being born.
But this is not something new, most people are shortsighted, and that include most of Slashdot's audience. Those few who actually take the effort to think a bit into the future will always be in advantage, and those who are used to receive everything for free will be paralyzed when they hit a real problem.
On the other hand, we have to keep in mind this is media, and media is not about cold, absolute and truthful information. Its about entertainment. People come here to be entertained, to have fun, not to listen to uncomfortable truths. Lies and misinformation are ok, fun must prevail at all costs.
These kind of comments will always be unpopular, thus modded down into oblivion, even if they are in fact insightful. This is where democracy fails. I'll join you in -1 hell. Fuck stupidity!
TFA in other words:
It is mission critical to have a holistic integration on next generation value-added enterprise, while eating your own dogfood and leveraging the core granular competencies to bring the sustainability to the customers.
Bitch, pahhhleaz!
Sorry to disillusion you, but people really need to understand just how little power the 99% has.
That's redundant, during the entire history, a very small amount of people had the most power. Only kids(of all ages) and communists dream about equal rights and/or power. They go kill the rich guys, take their money, and take their places as the new rich guys. It happened a milion times in history. Nothing new here.
In before grammar police: s/you much/you must/g :P
Yeah I suck, mod me down into oblivion
While I concur with your conclusion that this specific patent sucks, you much be also painfully aware that its also much more easier to find faults with other people solutions than finding your own solution.
No matter what you do, people will find ways to screw with your procedures, organisation, efforts and goals. Many people range from innocent idiots to some really insidious monkeys. Sometimes its better to implement a weak solution, monitor results, handle the extremes manually and adjust the solution dynamically. Handling it entirely manually can result in huge costs of micromanaging.
Evaluating people(not just programmers) has always been a problem. But not doing anything is not a solution.
The nice thing about academia in particular is that it is relatively easy to move from department to department, college to college, or to any central IT unit if you find yourself in an unpleasant situation due to personalities, changes in management, etc.
The keyword is "relatively".
From my 15 years experience, the easy move from department to department is nothing short of dreams/lies/advertising. In practical use, performing such move requires huge amounts of politics, networking and influence. If you already are good at those, you may as well aim for the CEO position. If you are not good with those types of skills (probably most of Slashdot audience), on such request you get the "finger". I.E. responses like "we actually need you here", "there aren't any other positions available that fits your expertise", or any other politically correct "finger".
Its much more easier to actually find yourself a whole new fresh job, at least there you start with a clean slate, unpolluted by internal politics. The funny part is that when you finally actually find a new job and you tell them you are leaving, they suddenly have available options for you. Slimmy fuckers.
Its actually a massive rotating bar:
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/12/the-center-of-the-milky-way-is-a-massive-rotating-bar-of-stars.html
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fence_(criminal)
the receiver must have accepted it with knowledge that it was stolen
So, ahem, yes, bullshit.
don't pretend that economic incentive isn't the primary reason why we look for jobs.
You are correct. But I hope you realize that's the same exact reason why the answer "Because I need a paycheck" is completely redundant.
There are multiple reasons why you want a job/that job. Its pointless to discuss the obvious one, that everyone has.
Of course your main reason is that you want money. But that should not be the ONLY reason. I mean, for that same amount of money, do you even care if you have to clean up toilets or develop a complex software architecture in your favorite programming language? If your answer is that you don't care, then I wouldn't hire you either.
then again, its a horrible time for job seekers right now. they have us by the shorties, as there is NO bargaining and NO unions to help us keep the big co's in check and in their place.
Or maybe there is never a bad time to blame it on the economy(or anyone else except yourself).
Actually, there is plenty of place for bargaining. I survived 2 major economic crisis's and I never had problem finding a job. The only variable was the amount of money I would get paid. Last time, a few months ago, I applied at 25 jobs and I've got 24 responses with job interviews schedules, resulting in 5 concrete final job offers. On a total of 2 weeks duration the whole ordeal.
I fkin negotiated to the last penny with the bastards, to a such insane level that my initial skip manager hated me for that(good thing shes gone from the company now, hehe).
You know something, if you are good at what you're doing, its YOU that have THEM by the balls. But be sure to scale your expectations to your real market value, not on some fairy tale place you would like to have fun and get paid.
Let me know when Firefox make tabs independent. Having one tab freeze the entire Firefox made me move to Chrome. It happened WAY too often. Oh, and the crashes.
Cargill: [gets out five files] Well, I've narrowed your choices down to 5 unthinkable options. Each will cause untold misery and--
President: [points to the third file] I pick #3.
Cargill: You don't even wanna read them first?
President: I was elected to lead, not to read. #3!
Perhaps its better to judge from case to case, instead of generalizations.
Sometimes a hard decision is necessary, a compromise has to be made.
But sometimes the price is just too horrible and unthinkable, indeed.
Obviously the "no sue" provision cannot be enforced since its illegal. In any country. They've put it there to intimidate some people. For them, its all about the bottom line. If even 5% of people get intimidated and they don't sue Sony because of that clause, its a win for them.
And Sony is not the only company that does stuff like this.
The only way to get rid of such crap are suits like this one. If they realize such provisions are biting their ass causing losses instead of guaranteed wins, they will stop putting them.
Next we know, any misleading advertising will not be allowed anymore. That's just nuts. Where is the world heading to?
Reasonable price is subject to permanent change. And not just on demand/offer, but something else too: customer base.
1. A couple of decades ago an hour of entertainment was selling quite nice for 30-50$ or more.
2. Now some people consider 0.99$ for an hour to be fair game.
3. In 20 years, most Chinese and Indians will get Internet access (after shelter, food, electricity and computers). When your potential audience is 10 billion and there are decent distribution networks I bet your ass it will be lucrative to sell an hour of good entertainment for even as low as 0.01$.
Actual numbers don't matter, you get the point :)
With time, even if people have more and more money the price is dropping. I believe "reasonable price" has nothing to do with pirates or why they pirate. A lower price may sell more units, indeed, but not because people pirate less.
Why on earth isn't "Adobe Reader X Protected Mode" the default?
It is the default.
I've checked both on my system (Adobe Reader X 10.1.1.33: Edit -> Preferences -> General -> "Enable Protected Mode at startup" checkbox) and both on their website:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/860/cpsid_86063.html#main_What_is_Protected_Mode_
Now, can we stop the FUD?
Sweden has a small physical area
Actually, Sweden has quite a huge surface (450 000 km2) with a population of just 9.4 millions, making it 155th country in the world by density. By the way, US is 143th by density.
No, population density is not the reason. Now, America, stop searching for excuses and go work on your infrastructure !
Fair enough.
Since perfect random is not achievable from theoretical point of view, I believe most practical application don't need this level of unknown random, including crypto. There are more cheap ways to provide more than decent randoms. At least most of those "lesser" randoms(math oriented sources) have measurable level of complexity. These almost ... religious ways of obtaining a random number can be overthrown any moment by a new physics discovery.
unknowable
Phhhsh, physicians and your imprecise science.
I believe you guys are throwing the term "unknowable" a bit lightly. I'm pretty sure its knowable, and even predictable, just very very VERY complicated. But not infinitely complicated. Therefore I demand you provide a rigorous demonstration that the process of it is unknowable(or unpredictable, exclude the semantic piss)
I remember very clearly a theorem during college that was proven beyond doubt is demonstrable, but was never demonstrated yet. Mathematics FTW!
I think the time has come and gone. Full SSDs are cheap, fast and lately even in high capacities. They are here to stay. Good bye platters!
Seagate needs to get on board and ditch the monstrosities that nobody wants. The link to the article is dead. It looks CNET removed/moved the Seagate advertisement ... ups, I mean the article.