Wouldn't that seem to support modern day ID more so than evolution?
only if there was a plausible theory for the existence and recursive creation of the creator (because that one could not have formed on itself as well, somebody had to create god, you know)
would be kinda appropriate to go ZOMG and report all music player owners as modern "terrorists". i mean, they have devices FOR BRINGING DOWN THE DAMN PLANES !! (on children)
depends on the definition of "most people". for those who do not speak native english, this name is as good as any other. except maybe "vista", which means 'chicken' in latvian. not that anybody cares:)
The main proponent of the latter was Peter Duesberg, a well respected researcher, who put forth the arguement that HIV was simply an opportunistic infection that could catch hold of a person after the damage they had done to their bodies by IV drug use and poor lifestyle choices.
tell that to ambulance person or somebody attacked on the street. that peter guy sounds like a religious/puritanic asshole. there goes my uninformed opinion;)
you probably didn't indend to do that, but you omitted some negative examples of market distortion - like monopolies. things like corruption probably don't fit in this list, as they aren't purely capitalistic:)
also, it would be hard to argue that some distortions are bad - like requiring equal treatment for different classes of people, including races, sexual preference and disabilities.
it should be possible to form a legislation that would punish you maybe not to death but to serious financial & public work amount. properly enforcing it on all obviously lame patent applications should cut them from you to 0 in the coming year.
let's say 3 hours of public work for very obvious claim, and 48 hours for software patent;) and if an applicant has exceeded some 100 assigned public work hours, his supervisor gets the overlow, and so on =)
i think the credibility & age of the document is important. i am actually very surprised that this is ignored in this discussion in favour of discussing various windows archivers. how sad:) anybody who could link to the mentioned document ? (i guess anybody with an asus computer;> )
and it's exactly this fact - that i can go to wikipedia and find full discography of some obscure band, maybe even including all covers of a particular track - that makes me value it & drives me to look there more often than in other places.
English speakers are one of the most arrogant groups in the world, linguistically.
my vote goes to russian speaking, though. here we have people who have born in this country, have lived here for 40 years... and can't grasp what time it is when i tell them it in the local language. and that's not an exception.
i don't think "rude" is even the correct word for that.
should every data type that could ever be put in, let's say database, be patentable ?
"patent for putting sound in dabase" "patent for putting picture in dabase" "patent for putting smell signature in dabase" "patent for putting visible colour range in dabase"
and, um, to answer your original question, exif metadata tags include thumbnail;)
my very vague understanding is not a 'merge' as such of two separate technologies as more these two units evolving so that they become more & more similar with each generation. in the end these units become so similar that there is no specific merge to do, you just really calculate all gpu inside the new cpu, or run the os on the new gpu. at least that's how i understood the idea, which to me also seemed a bit silly at the first moment;) though i don't see that happening in the mainstream in at least 10 years.
..and your post is so much more useful than all the other ones above it. i agree with gp. i'd like something like separate thresholds for various post types. i guess i'd set +5 threshold for funny...
My experience is that the majority of employers and the majority of employees are equally stupid and deserve each other.
too bad this is true;)
If you're at an interview and they seem retarded then you probably want to move on.
while i would support this as the most sensible reaction, i can understand how not everybody always is in a position to easily do that, so just have to take those tests. which just increases the annoyance factor.
Anyway, a person can pass the kind of stupid tests given at interviews and still be a retard. I wouldnt't give such stupid tests to people I hire and wouldn't submit to such a test.
but that's the thing - first, those tests aren't meant to be comprehensive, only to filter out absolute retards & liears. second, they can be good. just think about what you would put on such a short test - you'll probably think it would be good;)
The best thing an employer can look for is a portfolio. Look the work over, ask questions about the work, double check that it isn't just stolen from some open source project. If their work is good, even if unrelated to what you're doing, then they'll be good. If not, or if they lack a portfolio, then toss them.
that's only doable for developer positions. there are enough other positions where no such portfolio can be evaluated (you couldn't ask for access to the servers of the previous employers). while some developers also could argue that in-house written code can't be displayed, this is a perfect chance to show contributions to oss =)
If you're going to claim to know Java then write a program in Java and put it in your portfolio. If you're going to claim to know Linux then write some tools to make managing a Linux server easier and show you know common command-line programs and config files.
yes, but simply showing some components would not be satisfactory - the person could have snatched those off the internet or asked somebody else to write. asking to solve some simple problem during the testing would work so much better.
because you (the employer in this case) never know. a person can work in various places, have diplomas... and still be unbelievably stupid. i'd argue that other professions should gain some tests (i know a lot of them actually do, though those tests usually involve more generic skillset, like being able to work in a stressful conditions or under external noise, ability to quickly analyse particular information of the field etc).
actually, opera pops up eula upon firstrun. i don't know how many of their users read it, maybe 0.01 % or so. granted, opera is non-free (oss) software, so it's a bit different situation there.
see comment #12 at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439604. that's an attitude of "we're king of the hill, we want to do it this way, so FY everybody". i think this attitude is the worst part. oh, and you might consider voting on the bug;)
as you can see, it's year 1924. the description talks about western europe doing nothing while russia brutalises georgia. forward some years, they invade other countries.
fast forward to today. russia again occupies georgia, while nobody does shit. increases confidence, doesn't it ?
yeah, opera uses nspluginwrapper... but latest flash versions don't work at all (at least in 9.27) - all i get is a grey area. before that, having flash installed & enabled would memleak and thus possibly hang whole machine over a weekend. nspluginwrapper didn't seem to help much there...
1. it doesn't work in opera. well, it did some time ago, but then it just memleaked like crazy and brought whole computer down during a weekend;
2. it crashes firefox. just browsing around the damn youtube crashes ff very often and it's very easy to reproduce for me - i just hve to click on next video while i have previous one still playing a few times;
3. it was very late to show with 64bit and alsa support, and probably other stuff as well;
4. latest version is just shit. it's unusable. see the comments at http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2007/12/flash_player_9_update_3_final.html it is so unbelievably slow even on firefox (where it sort of works), that many applets just stop redrawing after a short while..48 version is somewhat better, but it seems to use insane amounts of ram after some time, probably the same old memleak fun... oh, and some things just plain don't work with that version anymore.
so, from my experience, flash plugin on linux is crap, and i have specific testcases that show it either memleaking, crashing the browser, or being too slow to be usable at all. so i've kinda given up on it. i have removed it for opera, and i have it only for firefox, which i open whenever i want to use some flash crap. i don't feel like allowing it to crash my main browser.
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Wouldn't that seem to support modern day ID more so than evolution?
only if there was a plausible theory for the existence and recursive creation of the creator (because that one could not have formed on itself as well, somebody had to create god, you know)
from outside, it's a bit confusing.
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/17th_September%2C_2008_-_Activity_since_launch says - "Raster left the project."
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/October_3rd%2C_2008 - "Raster is still with us."
sounds like some weak hollywood movie with spirits and whatnot.
they would just request more and more and more and more and more and more money - until they could store and decrypt this all.
as an additional bonus, they woul charge those people with "supporting terrorism" or "distracting authorities" or some other thing they could come up.
would be kinda appropriate to go ZOMG and report all music player owners as modern "terrorists". i mean, they have devices FOR BRINGING DOWN THE DAMN PLANES !! (on children)
depends on the definition of "most people". :)
for those who do not speak native english, this name is as good as any other. except maybe "vista", which means 'chicken' in latvian. not that anybody cares
The main proponent of the latter was Peter Duesberg, a well respected researcher, who put forth the arguement that HIV was simply an opportunistic infection that could catch hold of a person after the damage they had done to their bodies by IV drug use and poor lifestyle choices.
tell that to ambulance person or somebody attacked on the street. that peter guy sounds like a religious/puritanic asshole. there goes my uninformed opinion ;)
you probably didn't indend to do that, but you omitted some negative examples of market distortion - like monopolies. :)
things like corruption probably don't fit in this list, as they aren't purely capitalistic
also, it would be hard to argue that some distortions are bad - like requiring equal treatment for different classes of people, including races, sexual preference and disabilities.
it should be possible to form a legislation that would punish you maybe not to death but to serious financial & public work amount.
properly enforcing it on all obviously lame patent applications should cut them from you to 0 in the coming year.
let's say 3 hours of public work for very obvious claim, and 48 hours for software patent ;)
and if an applicant has exceeded some 100 assigned public work hours, his supervisor gets the overlow, and so on =)
okular is supposed to support fillable forms. :)
haven't yet had a chance to test that, still using kde3
i think the credibility & age of the document is important. i am actually very surprised that this is ignored in this discussion in favour of discussing various windows archivers. how sad :) ;> )
anybody who could link to the mentioned document ? (i guess anybody with an asus computer
and it's exactly this fact - that i can go to wikipedia and find full discography of some obscure band, maybe even including all covers of a particular track - that makes me value it & drives me to look there more often than in other places.
English speakers are one of the most arrogant groups in the world, linguistically.
my vote goes to russian speaking, though.
here we have people who have born in this country, have lived here for 40 years... and can't grasp what time it is when i tell them it in the local language. and that's not an exception.
i don't think "rude" is even the correct word for that.
should every data type that could ever be put in, let's say database, be patentable ?
"patent for putting sound in dabase"
"patent for putting picture in dabase"
"patent for putting smell signature in dabase"
"patent for putting visible colour range in dabase"
and, um, to answer your original question, exif metadata tags include thumbnail ;)
It's a problem with the entire system that can be fixed only by giving the USPTO more resources.
or getting rid of software patents ?
my very vague understanding is not a 'merge' as such of two separate technologies as more these two units evolving so that they become more & more similar with each generation. in the end these units become so similar that there is no specific merge to do, you just really calculate all gpu inside the new cpu, or run the os on the new gpu. ;)
at least that's how i understood the idea, which to me also seemed a bit silly at the first moment
though i don't see that happening in the mainstream in at least 10 years.
..and your post is so much more useful than all the other ones above it.
i agree with gp. i'd like something like separate thresholds for various post types. i guess i'd set +5 threshold for funny...
My experience is that the majority of employers and the majority of employees are equally stupid and deserve each other.
too bad this is true ;)
If you're at an interview and they seem retarded then you probably want to move on.
while i would support this as the most sensible reaction, i can understand how not everybody always is in a position to easily do that, so just have to take those tests. which just increases the annoyance factor.
Anyway, a person can pass the kind of stupid tests given at interviews and still be a retard. I wouldnt't give such stupid tests to people I hire and wouldn't submit to such a test.
but that's the thing - first, those tests aren't meant to be comprehensive, only to filter out absolute retards & liears. second, they can be good. just think about what you would put on such a short test - you'll probably think it would be good ;)
The best thing an employer can look for is a portfolio. Look the work over, ask questions about the work, double check that it isn't just stolen from some open source project. If their work is good, even if unrelated to what you're doing, then they'll be good. If not, or if they lack a portfolio, then toss them.
that's only doable for developer positions. there are enough other positions where no such portfolio can be evaluated (you couldn't ask for access to the servers of the previous employers). while some developers also could argue that in-house written code can't be displayed, this is a perfect chance to show contributions to oss =)
If you're going to claim to know Java then write a program in Java and put it in your portfolio. If you're going to claim to know Linux then write some tools to make managing a Linux server easier and show you know common command-line programs and config files.
yes, but simply showing some components would not be satisfactory - the person could have snatched those off the internet or asked somebody else to write. asking to solve some simple problem during the testing would work so much better.
because you (the employer in this case) never know.
a person can work in various places, have diplomas... and still be unbelievably stupid.
i'd argue that other professions should gain some tests (i know a lot of them actually do, though those tests usually involve more generic skillset, like being able to work in a stressful conditions or under external noise, ability to quickly analyse particular information of the field etc).
actually, opera pops up eula upon firstrun. i don't know how many of their users read it, maybe 0.01 % or so. granted, opera is non-free (oss) software, so it's a bit different situation there.
see comment #12 at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439604. ;)
that's an attitude of "we're king of the hill, we want to do it this way, so FY everybody". i think this attitude is the worst part. oh, and you might consider voting on the bug
actually, i read it at first as "Canadian DMCA Proposal Author About To Die".
disturbing.
the second paragraph probably nulls any chance that google could provide satellite data for projects like http://www.openstreetmap.org/...
would be kinda cool though. somebody even suggested (as a joke :) ) "google summer of map", a project for openstreetmap mapping =)
history repeats.
an old newspaper was recently circulated around here - http://www.ltn.lv/~slanarsx/base/gruz.jpg.
as you can see, it's year 1924. the description talks about western europe doing nothing while russia brutalises georgia. forward some years, they invade other countries.
fast forward to today. russia again occupies georgia, while nobody does shit. increases confidence, doesn't it ?
yeah, opera uses nspluginwrapper... but latest flash versions don't work at all (at least in 9.27) - all i get is a grey area.
before that, having flash installed & enabled would memleak and thus possibly hang whole machine over a weekend.
nspluginwrapper didn't seem to help much there...
that's a valid rant (the article, that is).
so problems with flash..
1. it doesn't work in opera. well, it did some time ago, but then it just memleaked like crazy and brought whole computer down during a weekend;
2. it crashes firefox. just browsing around the damn youtube crashes ff very often and it's very easy to reproduce for me - i just hve to click on next video while i have previous one still playing a few times;
3. it was very late to show with 64bit and alsa support, and probably other stuff as well;
4. latest version is just shit. it's unusable. see the comments at http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2007/12/flash_player_9_update_3_final.html .48 version is somewhat better, but it seems to use insane amounts of ram after some time, probably the same old memleak fun... oh, and some things just plain don't work with that version anymore.
it is so unbelievably slow even on firefox (where it sort of works), that many applets just stop redrawing after a short while.
so, from my experience, flash plugin on linux is crap, and i have specific testcases that show it either memleaking, crashing the browser, or being too slow to be usable at all.
so i've kinda given up on it. i have removed it for opera, and i have it only for firefox, which i open whenever i want to use some flash crap. i don't feel like allowing it to crash my main browser.