I realize you've turned your sarcasm meter up to 11, but even so, you seem to be even more cynical than I am (those who know me would tell you this is an accomplishment). But please address the first paragraph of my original post. Do you think (know? have any evidence?) that prison ("slave" say you and others) labor is subjected to the equal number of health and safety risks as those indentured servants of FoxConn?
I won't whitewash this "American slave labor", but I wonder if the prison laborers are subjected to very long work days (6 days, 60 hours), toxic chemicals, and other safety risks that would not fly elsewhere in America? Are the prisoners doing this work typically 12 and 13yr old girls?
If you're in prison, you didn't just wake up there one day. You got there for a reason. As a felon, you lose rights (voting, guns, etc). They are paid a very meager wage according to your article, but I'm just saying that even on balance, the Chinese workers probably STILL have it worse.
I love anything that Limor Fried does. This may sound creepy, but she is like the perfect woman. I mean Christ, she names her cat MOSFET! How could you not admire that?
Well, I guess some people find it cool. On the other hand, I'm not an EE or circuit-bending guy and had to look it up. So I wasn't terribly impressed by that. The rest of her entrepreneurship, on the other hand, is plenty to admire of anyone. As for the "perfect woman"... to each his own. I googled some photos, and she's not the first person I'd notice from the other side of the room.
If I interviewed with you and you explained your company's ROWE doctrine to me, I'd drop you like a hot potato and move on to the next opportunity.
You might conjecture that's because I fear I'm not productive enough for you, or simply couldn't measure up. On the other hand, consider for a moment that maybe I'm more than qualified, productive and motivated -- but that I think your ROWE doctrine is a kind of employer's mind-game. It's an invisible goal-post that you've planted, an ambiguous promise. I have no interest in that kind of bullshit. No contract means no breach, right?
... what makes you think people will bother learning and using an even more complicated electronic system? Non univerisity library users (generally) tend to be the older generation. They don't have the ooo-shiny! approach to computers so if its a hassle they won't use it. End of.
(submitter here): Well, the card catalog is largely a system for classification and to help you locate books, to know what you've got, and where it is. In our system, it's actually probably even smaller than everyone is thinking -- imagine a 12x20ft room with shelves from floor to ceiling, and half of them could be empty, depending on how tightly we packed each shelf. This is the reason most people walk in and can, for the most part, easily browse to find something they're interested in or are looking for.
I mentioned the card catalog because it was indicative of the only kind of actual "system" being used. The computer system would be something that helps us know not only what we've got, but what's out and who's got it. We'd hopefully have a labeling system, barcode scanner, member cards/barcodes, printer but we ALSO would like the computerized system to be somewhat secured (both software and hardware, if possible). I recently set up a Windows 7 server which is actually rather overpowered for their (present) needs, but could easily run some library software from within the "server closet" and could run some cable to a thin client, but I'd also want that thin client to be extremely locked-down as possible, permitting only interaction with the library application(s).
Actually under international law they are supposed to return any wreckage from an aircraft that crashes in their territory. That is during peace time. Also as long as the aircraft was not "military" and not armed it is not considered an act of war.
I know you're just paraphrasing, but I wonder what the actual language of this international law says. Define "aircraft" (we usually think of something that can carry passengers). "Not military" may be hard to prove. Additionally, it may not have "crashed", but auto-landed as some have suggested. There could be quite a few loopholes. Not that any of this matters, as I think we know Iran will keep it no matter what.
On HTC phones you basically say "Jailbreak please" and it says "OK."
Actually if that's true, I'd like to know. It seems there are plenty of HTC phones mentioned in forums and there are dozens of jailbreak methods listed, and they don't all seem entirely "simple" (certainly far from a one-click).
Sponsors? What the heck? I come to slashdot to get answers not marketing BS. Now you are going to give some company "authority?" I guess I can say goodbye to getting answers on slashdot.
I was thinking much the same thing... The only way to do this "right", I think, would be to allow the "expert" to be introduced (who/what/where) and then allow them to answer questions (where relevant) with the best responses possible -- something as helpful as you might find from an excellent daily/. discussion contributor. However, the moment that the person starts plugging their company or product where it's not completely appropriate, expect shit to blow up, and people will be pissed. And then they won't come back. Be careful, Slashdot!
Then the city implemented an easy system, and most people, and I really mean most of them, now recycle habitually. Don't underestimate people. They might surprise you.
A few years back I was on the outskirts of Boston for some training. I'd finished a soda and asked one of the folks who worked there, "Hey, where can I recycle this?" and the dumbfounding reply I got was "Huh? Just throw it in the trash with everything else."
I'm from a state where mandatory recycling programs have been in place (in one form or another, differing by locale) for 20+ years. Maybe this county or city near Boston had some kind of high-price disposal service that does the separation for them? *shrugs*
Now, these days I'm in a family of five. We've got two equal-sized rolling bins, one for trash and the other for commingled recycling material. Trash gets picked up weekly, recycling every other week. I wish it were the other way around! Volume-wise, recycling materials are three or four times the quantity of our trash. It forces me to constantly make sure that cardboard is broken down, plastic containers are crushed, etc so we can fit everything in there.
Ill admit that I was a VERY early adopter of Linux and I have never regretted it. It has been a struggle at times, but well worth it.
I have absolutely no reason to disbelieve you. I was running Linux for a while (years ago), but getting some things configured was a royal pain -- even for a geek who has no fear of documentation. I suspect that at least for some people, cognitive dissonance plays a role in their pride of using Linux.
I did this one year... I didn't put out a decoy ahead of time. Stitched a burlap hood for my head, wore oversized clothes which I stuffed with fabric & rags to give them an uneven look. I went the "entrapment" route, with a sign on my bowl that said "please take only one".:)
One kid approached with his friends, read the sign aloud and said, "yeah, right!" and proceeded to grab a handful. I lurched forward, "Just ONE!" and he began shoveling candy back OUT of his bag and into my bowl, even stuff that wasn't from our bowl. That's funny.
I had to play it nice a few times when I got moms with their 5yr-old princesses -- either wave at them from far away, or just "play dead" and never even let them in on the secret.:)
Please mod up parent (and maybe down-mod grandparent, too, as overrated). Yes, the attendees are dreamers, but they really are long(est)-term planners of the most academic variety. Plenty of brains solving real (and distant) problems, not just writing a new movie or novel.
Note that this technique can't be used to recover passwords, since it is essentially a dictionary attack.
Judging by the typos and spelling errors to be found in the average slashdot post, most of these folks will be immune to dictionary attacks. Unless they build up a dictionary of misspellings, too... dagnabbit!
I'm sorry, but a browser is not a piece of art. It's like your carpenter telling you that your cabinet will have sliding doors; no matter how many orders he gets for hinged doors, he'll ignore it. Sure, he can do that, but he'll be considered a quirky craftsman at best, and a bad one at worst, and I don't think his carpentry business will be viable in the long run.
On the other hand, have you ever got a carpenter to make a high quality piece for you, even if you didn't agree with all the aesthetics, and the price was free? You received no less than what you've paid for, I figure.
Why is everyone so fixated on the idea that every form of life should be based on Carbon?
Because we have a nearly infinite multitude of carbon-based life forms here on earth, and we know a lot about their chemistry, metabolic byproducts, behaviors, patterns, etc. We can put together a list of known items that could indicate carbon-based life, and create experiments or procedures that help us locate them. If you choose silicon (presumably), where do you start? What kind of things indicate products of silicon-based life? That's a pretty short list, I think.
Yes, that's what I was alluding to. You'll notice I used several conditionals in my statements, and no absolutes. My primary point was that it's silly to assume that "first one there" should be the de facto leader/winner/whatever.:)
I hope people are smarter than this. Don't fall for this, please. Support those who were on the scene first, not mighty Google coming in for the steal.
The market usually supports those who provide the best product to the consumer. "Seniority" carries little weight.
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I realize you've turned your sarcasm meter up to 11, but even so, you seem to be even more cynical than I am (those who know me would tell you this is an accomplishment). But please address the first paragraph of my original post. Do you think (know? have any evidence?) that prison ("slave" say you and others) labor is subjected to the equal number of health and safety risks as those indentured servants of FoxConn?
I won't whitewash this "American slave labor", but I wonder if the prison laborers are subjected to very long work days (6 days, 60 hours), toxic chemicals, and other safety risks that would not fly elsewhere in America? Are the prisoners doing this work typically 12 and 13yr old girls?
If you're in prison, you didn't just wake up there one day. You got there for a reason. As a felon, you lose rights (voting, guns, etc). They are paid a very meager wage according to your article, but I'm just saying that even on balance, the Chinese workers probably STILL have it worse.
You make me wish I'd paid greater attention in my high school chemistry course. Thanks for the details! :)
I love anything that Limor Fried does. This may sound creepy, but she is like the perfect woman. I mean Christ, she names her cat MOSFET! How could you not admire that?
Well, I guess some people find it cool. On the other hand, I'm not an EE or circuit-bending guy and had to look it up. So I wasn't terribly impressed by that. The rest of her entrepreneurship, on the other hand, is plenty to admire of anyone. As for the "perfect woman"... to each his own. I googled some photos, and she's not the first person I'd notice from the other side of the room.
If I interviewed with you and you explained your company's ROWE doctrine to me, I'd drop you like a hot potato and move on to the next opportunity.
You might conjecture that's because I fear I'm not productive enough for you, or simply couldn't measure up. On the other hand, consider for a moment that maybe I'm more than qualified, productive and motivated -- but that I think your ROWE doctrine is a kind of employer's mind-game. It's an invisible goal-post that you've planted, an ambiguous promise. I have no interest in that kind of bullshit. No contract means no breach, right?
... what makes you think people will bother learning and using an even more complicated electronic system? Non univerisity library users (generally) tend to be the older generation. They don't have the ooo-shiny! approach to computers so if its a hassle they won't use it. End of.
(submitter here): Well, the card catalog is largely a system for classification and to help you locate books, to know what you've got, and where it is. In our system, it's actually probably even smaller than everyone is thinking -- imagine a 12x20ft room with shelves from floor to ceiling, and half of them could be empty, depending on how tightly we packed each shelf. This is the reason most people walk in and can, for the most part, easily browse to find something they're interested in or are looking for.
I mentioned the card catalog because it was indicative of the only kind of actual "system" being used. The computer system would be something that helps us know not only what we've got, but what's out and who's got it. We'd hopefully have a labeling system, barcode scanner, member cards/barcodes, printer but we ALSO would like the computerized system to be somewhat secured (both software and hardware, if possible). I recently set up a Windows 7 server which is actually rather overpowered for their (present) needs, but could easily run some library software from within the "server closet" and could run some cable to a thin client, but I'd also want that thin client to be extremely locked-down as possible, permitting only interaction with the library application(s).
Actually under international law they are supposed to return any wreckage from an aircraft that crashes in their territory. That is during peace time. Also as long as the aircraft was not "military" and not armed it is not considered an act of war.
I know you're just paraphrasing, but I wonder what the actual language of this international law says. Define "aircraft" (we usually think of something that can carry passengers). "Not military" may be hard to prove. Additionally, it may not have "crashed", but auto-landed as some have suggested. There could be quite a few loopholes. Not that any of this matters, as I think we know Iran will keep it no matter what.
On HTC phones you basically say "Jailbreak please" and it says "OK."
Actually if that's true, I'd like to know. It seems there are plenty of HTC phones mentioned in forums and there are dozens of jailbreak methods listed, and they don't all seem entirely "simple" (certainly far from a one-click).
Sponsors? What the heck? I come to slashdot to get answers not marketing BS. Now you are going to give some company "authority?" I guess I can say goodbye to getting answers on slashdot.
I was thinking much the same thing... The only way to do this "right", I think, would be to allow the "expert" to be introduced (who/what/where) and then allow them to answer questions (where relevant) with the best responses possible -- something as helpful as you might find from an excellent daily /. discussion contributor. However, the moment that the person starts plugging their company or product where it's not completely appropriate, expect shit to blow up, and people will be pissed. And then they won't come back. Be careful, Slashdot!
Probably nickelback. They're good as mass production.
I initially read that as ass production. Picking nits, I guess.
Then the city implemented an easy system, and most people, and I really mean most of them, now recycle habitually. Don't underestimate people. They might surprise you.
A few years back I was on the outskirts of Boston for some training. I'd finished a soda and asked one of the folks who worked there, "Hey, where can I recycle this?" and the dumbfounding reply I got was "Huh? Just throw it in the trash with everything else."
I'm from a state where mandatory recycling programs have been in place (in one form or another, differing by locale) for 20+ years. Maybe this county or city near Boston had some kind of high-price disposal service that does the separation for them? *shrugs*
Now, these days I'm in a family of five. We've got two equal-sized rolling bins, one for trash and the other for commingled recycling material. Trash gets picked up weekly, recycling every other week. I wish it were the other way around! Volume-wise, recycling materials are three or four times the quantity of our trash. It forces me to constantly make sure that cardboard is broken down, plastic containers are crushed, etc so we can fit everything in there.
The 3-body problem is easy to solve computationally. It just has no closed-form solution.
Quantum mechanics certainly can be simulated at a low level, it's just too costly a simulation to use to simulate large-scale systems.
I knew this guy once... he told me the 3-body problem was that "someone is always left out".
For a lot of people, Facebook is the web.
So, what you're saying is that Facebook is the new AOL?
Chutzpah and Schadenfreud come to mind.
Gesundheit.
Ill admit that I was a VERY early adopter of Linux and I have never regretted it. It has been a struggle at times, but well worth it.
I have absolutely no reason to disbelieve you. I was running Linux for a while (years ago), but getting some things configured was a royal pain -- even for a geek who has no fear of documentation. I suspect that at least for some people, cognitive dissonance plays a role in their pride of using Linux.
JavaScript is something a newbie might want to try out. Newbies ask more questions.
I don't think that's a reflection on the difficulty of JavaScript.
Additionally, everyone who visits StackOverflow is guaranteed to also already have a Javascript engine/interpreter built into their browser.
I did this one year... I didn't put out a decoy ahead of time. Stitched a burlap hood for my head, wore oversized clothes which I stuffed with fabric & rags to give them an uneven look. I went the "entrapment" route, with a sign on my bowl that said "please take only one". :)
One kid approached with his friends, read the sign aloud and said, "yeah, right!" and proceeded to grab a handful. I lurched forward, "Just ONE!" and he began shoveling candy back OUT of his bag and into my bowl, even stuff that wasn't from our bowl. That's funny.
I had to play it nice a few times when I got moms with their 5yr-old princesses -- either wave at them from far away, or just "play dead" and never even let them in on the secret. :)
I've found that if you can search for the right keywords at google news, you'll find an NYT link that will give you the complete article.
Here's a link that works for me (YMMV): http://news.google.com/news/story?gl=us&pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=starship&ncl=d5j24uvZSmGgwvMv7_s8g-OIhx-3M
Please mod up parent (and maybe down-mod grandparent, too, as overrated). Yes, the attendees are dreamers, but they really are long(est)-term planners of the most academic variety. Plenty of brains solving real (and distant) problems, not just writing a new movie or novel.
Note that this technique can't be used to recover passwords, since it is essentially a dictionary attack.
Judging by the typos and spelling errors to be found in the average slashdot post, most of these folks will be immune to dictionary attacks. Unless they build up a dictionary of misspellings, too... dagnabbit!
I'm sorry, but a browser is not a piece of art.
It's like your carpenter telling you that your cabinet will have sliding doors; no matter how many orders he gets for hinged doors, he'll ignore it.
Sure, he can do that, but he'll be considered a quirky craftsman at best, and a bad one at worst, and I don't think his carpentry business will be viable in the long run.
On the other hand, have you ever got a carpenter to make a high quality piece for you, even if you didn't agree with all the aesthetics, and the price was free? You received no less than what you've paid for, I figure.
... for tuning into the Matlock channel.
Why is everyone so fixated on the idea that every form of life should be based on Carbon?
Because we have a nearly infinite multitude of carbon-based life forms here on earth, and we know a lot about their chemistry, metabolic byproducts, behaviors, patterns, etc. We can put together a list of known items that could indicate carbon-based life, and create experiments or procedures that help us locate them. If you choose silicon (presumably), where do you start? What kind of things indicate products of silicon-based life? That's a pretty short list, I think.
Yes, that's what I was alluding to. You'll notice I used several conditionals in my statements, and no absolutes. My primary point was that it's silly to assume that "first one there" should be the de facto leader/winner/whatever. :)
I hope people are smarter than this. Don't fall for this, please.
Support those who were on the scene first, not mighty Google coming in for the steal.
The market usually supports those who provide the best product to the consumer. "Seniority" carries little weight.