and yet not done on the iPhone because the wrong team at Apple invented it
That's a pretty rash conclusion. Maybe they didn't implement copy and paste with a "yank board" for the same reason they didn't use Dylan as its primary language, not because of NIH but because it's obscure and unusual and does not meet market expectations.
...sends chills down my spine, since I'm in escrow right now and am dealing with mortgage brokers.
If you've never gone through the process before, it's completely crazy, particularly for someone like me who works for different employers and does about 20% of his income from contracts (I'm a technician in the film industry). You dig up every paystub you have for the past two years, every bank statement showing the deposits of those paystubs, your tax returns, credit card numbers, SSN, and drivers license, Xerox it all, and bring it to their office (or ship it as an encrypted PDF) -- and god help you if you have but one check stub with a missing quarter inch on the left margin. I know my brokers themselves are above board and have been around for ever and are either (1) known personally to me and my friends of many years or (2) have had a going business concern for a decade, but any punk working in their office could just walk off with a complete copy of one's economic life. A lot of it is just padding and rain dancing on the part of the broker, too, since they seem to be completely clueless about what the underwriter is going to kill your application for on a day to day basis, and basically just want to bury FannieMae and the bank in paper.
Apparently before the present crisis they didn't do any of this, and you could just walk into a mortgage brokers office, submit the the barest of credit checks, not have an income and walk away with half a million dollars to buy a Persian Palace in Riverside.
It seems ludicrous that there isn't some kind of system whereby a bank, thinking about lending someone money, can't get my signature on a form that lets them see my accounts at other institutions, or employers. (when I was using mint.com, it had much more up-to-date and personal information about me, and that required a hundreth the effort and no paper moved in any direction by mail or otherwise, and frankly a signed.crt and an SSL link are much more trustworthy than the coffee gofer at the mortagage broker's.) I think the real issue is the lending banks don't want to take on any of the liability for losing all the paper you sent, so if someone in the chain does steal my identity, they can always point out that it was I who made the copy in the first place and therefore bear blame. They don't want to be in the position of being a link in that chain or initiating any motion of information.
Speaking of shooting money into space, you'll also notice that we didn't get integrated circuits to build computers with until after that wasteful Apollo program.
Well, there was a lot of innovation involved in building the AGC, but the real VOLUME for IC manufacture through the 60s, and the thing that really drove size and cost down was the demand for nav computers in nuclear missiles. Without the cold war, it's not clear to me exactly how that would have happened, since it required people with 30 year visions to really champion ICs, and no private industry in US history has really demonstrated that.
I meant to attach the disclaimer that Keynes was positively making a joke when he suggested burying dollar bills; say what you will about Maynard, he definitely had a better sense of humor than Mises.
as for the government burying the cable, about the biggest reason why it was a success is because of the lack of government after it was set up. This is typically where the boondoggles come in, after the initial outlay and organization when the management is concentrated on.
This seems to align with the original Keynes joke perfectly. Government buries valuable asset for private individuals to dig up.
You're right about the cables, though the real endowment of the internetwork are the open standards and the various design emphases (decentralization, vendor independence, an original strong focus on non-commerical communication), which I'm not convinced any private organization would have ever made work. Without ARPANET, the Internet as we know it today would probably just be another cable box.
In this case, it's a terrible sign that the Japanese are so fed up with investing in the US that they now see hurling money into space as a better alternative.
Yeah but if it works, it'll generate income, there is a risk/reward here, unlike the Keynes "bury money in a mine" scenario.
I could make a smartass remark here about how the US government decided to bury millions of dollars in cable underground in the 1960s, connecting universities and research institutions with an inefficient government boondoggle...
This is true, and I'm happy to admit that one of the probable reasons people are so satisfied with the VA system is on account of the fact that it's FREEEEEEEE!!! Or rather, the risk of all is borne by all, and you can't be welched out of it in any good-faith circumstance.
Of course, we could all have this arrangement, wether by national insurance or proper private health insurance regulation, if we voted for it.
If you're getting a letter from the VA you already have free liftetime health insurance, and in the US it's illegal to decline someone a job on account of their medical condition, insofar as it doesn't interfere with performance, which for someone who doesn't have a disease, it won't.
I'm sure there's some sort of latent point in this about "socialized medicine" or something, but for every one of these letters with the wrong diagnosis, I assure you a private insurer has cancelled the policy on dozens of people for no goddamn reason. And those people sometimes commit suicide too.
There are many scary anecdotes about the VA, but they're just that, anecdotes. Customer satisfaction within the VA health system regularly outscores customer satisfaction in the private health insurance/care system.
PS. If you get a letter saying you have an incurable disease, damn the letter. You must hear it from your doctor's own lips, and then only after you have had the outcome of the tests throughly explained to you.
It certainly didn't do Kevin Reynolds any favors, though Universal was able to scrape by. On reflection, it's probably unlikely Fox would be sunk by a bad showing for Avatar, though Cameron and Lightstorm might not fair as well under a fail scenario.
Heaven's Gate, 1980, Michael Cimino, starring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Sam Waterston et al. Important not just because it was bad, but because it was the third most expensive film of 1980, at $35 million (in that year, Empire Strikes Back was made for $18 million), and failed so stupendously that it is now remembered as one of those few rare bombs that are so terrible that they actually bankrupt the studio that made them; see also Battlefield Earth, Masters of the Universe (or Superman 4, both did Cannon in), and Cutthroat Island.
The implication of a comparison to Heaven's Gate is that it is not only terrible, but so hideously expensive ($237 million) that it could bankrupt Fox. Which almost happened once before.
This decriminalization may be the first sign that he is accepting the fact that narcotics is an integral part of Mexican culture.
I was with you up until this last sentence. I know you're not trying to be racist...
There is however a definite, long-standing trend in Mexican culture to assert independence from the gringoes, alternating with catering to their vices, mainly through prostitution and smuggling.
Personally I have never understood why people are so convinced the solution to everything is the "free-market".
Because it is simple and morally destitute. If an economy is formed by actors that are completely rational, free and efficient, then everyone who is poor and destitute obviously had it coming.
Also see panglossianism, and the long-standing tradition of certainpopularphilosophers to cater to the prejudices, and salve the aching consciences, of the rich and powerful, and to let them know that, yes, everything is A-OK with you in charge.
I seem to recall them selling off their PC business to a Chinese company a few years ago, calls itself "Lenovo." In 2007 IBM sold it's printing division to Ricoh; in 2002 it sold its chipset business... All that will be left are a bunch of smart people who tell you what to spend your money on, aside from their gold-plated advice. And those smart people will live and consume wherever it makes sense for them to do so.
If the question really is silly, then it's an honest answer
There's no such thing as a stupid question, particularly from an employer. The difference between an adequate tech and a great tech is the great tech can answer a stupid question in such a way that enlightens the asker without insulting their intelligence.
Of course this is slashdot, so I'm not surprised to find casually insulting people posting here. You just don't realize.
Saying that a question is silly is hardly an insult,
It presumes bad faith or ignorance on the part of the questioner. When having a polite conversation with a stranger, particularly one you wish to show deference, you should always give the speaker the benefit of the doubt, and never confront them for being ignorant or specious. Just concede they believe they know what they're talking about, indicate how this doesn't match your understanding of the issue, and move one. "Silly" is a put-down, and a woman in particular might consider this language to be condescending from a man. You might not consider that fair, but that's the breaks.
If they insult you, then you thank them for the interview and hang up. Haven't any of you ever done phone support before!?NEVER EVER EVER confront. It's simply never appropriate or effective.
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That's a pretty rash conclusion. Maybe they didn't implement copy and paste with a "yank board" for the same reason they didn't use Dylan as its primary language, not because of NIH but because it's obscure and unusual and does not meet market expectations.
...sends chills down my spine, since I'm in escrow right now and am dealing with mortgage brokers. If you've never gone through the process before, it's completely crazy, particularly for someone like me who works for different employers and does about 20% of his income from contracts (I'm a technician in the film industry). You dig up every paystub you have for the past two years, every bank statement showing the deposits of those paystubs, your tax returns, credit card numbers, SSN, and drivers license, Xerox it all, and bring it to their office (or ship it as an encrypted PDF) -- and god help you if you have but one check stub with a missing quarter inch on the left margin. I know my brokers themselves are above board and have been around for ever and are either (1) known personally to me and my friends of many years or (2) have had a going business concern for a decade, but any punk working in their office could just walk off with a complete copy of one's economic life. A lot of it is just padding and rain dancing on the part of the broker, too, since they seem to be completely clueless about what the underwriter is going to kill your application for on a day to day basis, and basically just want to bury FannieMae and the bank in paper.
.crt and an SSL link are much more trustworthy than the coffee gofer at the mortagage broker's.) I think the real issue is the lending banks don't want to take on any of the liability for losing all the paper you sent, so if someone in the chain does steal my identity, they can always point out that it was I who made the copy in the first place and therefore bear blame. They don't want to be in the position of being a link in that chain or initiating any motion of information.
Apparently before the present crisis they didn't do any of this, and you could just walk into a mortgage brokers office, submit the the barest of credit checks, not have an income and walk away with half a million dollars to buy a Persian Palace in Riverside.
It seems ludicrous that there isn't some kind of system whereby a bank, thinking about lending someone money, can't get my signature on a form that lets them see my accounts at other institutions, or employers. (when I was using mint.com, it had much more up-to-date and personal information about me, and that required a hundreth the effort and no paper moved in any direction by mail or otherwise, and frankly a signed
SDI doesn't do encryption, so it's alot like AES-3. The manufacturers cross-licensing the tech to each other forbid it in consumer gear.
These are hard to read about, I'm having some trouble finding links. Could you post one or two here?
Do futures explicitly spawn tasks, or is it just lazy evaluation?
It is a test of whether or not a human can be FOULED into believe
Indeed, ducks have been passing it for years. This technology is also the basis of Google's PigeonRank. \sillygoose
I'm pretty sure Rush Limbaugh and Neal Cavuto have podcasts at this point.
I'm almost positive that a pound of human hair is a hell of a lot more expensive and harder to come by than a pound of silicon.
Speaking of shooting money into space, you'll also notice that we didn't get integrated circuits to build computers with until after that wasteful Apollo program.
Well, there was a lot of innovation involved in building the AGC, but the real VOLUME for IC manufacture through the 60s, and the thing that really drove size and cost down was the demand for nav computers in nuclear missiles. Without the cold war, it's not clear to me exactly how that would have happened, since it required people with 30 year visions to really champion ICs, and no private industry in US history has really demonstrated that.
This is what they get for discovering the Simpson Comet. This fire is required to make sure such an event never occurs again.
I meant to attach the disclaimer that Keynes was positively making a joke when he suggested burying dollar bills; say what you will about Maynard, he definitely had a better sense of humor than Mises.
as for the government burying the cable, about the biggest reason why it was a success is because of the lack of government after it was set up. This is typically where the boondoggles come in, after the initial outlay and organization when the management is concentrated on.
This seems to align with the original Keynes joke perfectly. Government buries valuable asset for private individuals to dig up.
You're right about the cables, though the real endowment of the internetwork are the open standards and the various design emphases (decentralization, vendor independence, an original strong focus on non-commerical communication), which I'm not convinced any private organization would have ever made work. Without ARPANET, the Internet as we know it today would probably just be another cable box.
In this case, it's a terrible sign that the Japanese are so fed up with investing in the US that they now see hurling money into space as a better alternative.
Yeah but if it works, it'll generate income, there is a risk/reward here, unlike the Keynes "bury money in a mine" scenario.
I could make a smartass remark here about how the US government decided to bury millions of dollars in cable underground in the 1960s, connecting universities and research institutions with an inefficient government boondoggle...
No, really! She was carving her name on the moose with an interspace toothbrush borrowed from her dentist Ole...
I fear this reference tests even the edge of slashdot pop culture knowledge.
This is true, and I'm happy to admit that one of the probable reasons people are so satisfied with the VA system is on account of the fact that it's FREEEEEEEE!!! Or rather, the risk of all is borne by all, and you can't be welched out of it in any good-faith circumstance.
Of course, we could all have this arrangement, wether by national insurance or proper private health insurance regulation, if we voted for it.
health insurance policies refused
If you're getting a letter from the VA you already have free liftetime health insurance, and in the US it's illegal to decline someone a job on account of their medical condition, insofar as it doesn't interfere with performance, which for someone who doesn't have a disease, it won't.
I'm sure there's some sort of latent point in this about "socialized medicine" or something, but for every one of these letters with the wrong diagnosis, I assure you a private insurer has cancelled the policy on dozens of people for no goddamn reason. And those people sometimes commit suicide too.
There are many scary anecdotes about the VA, but they're just that, anecdotes. Customer satisfaction within the VA health system regularly outscores customer satisfaction in the private health insurance/care system.
PS. If you get a letter saying you have an incurable disease, damn the letter. You must hear it from your doctor's own lips, and then only after you have had the outcome of the tests throughly explained to you.
Zip drives doesn't deserve that much scorn. Jaz drives, on the other hand...
It certainly didn't do Kevin Reynolds any favors, though Universal was able to scrape by. On reflection, it's probably unlikely Fox would be sunk by a bad showing for Avatar, though Cameron and Lightstorm might not fair as well under a fail scenario.
Heaven's Gate, 1980, Michael Cimino, starring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Sam Waterston et al. Important not just because it was bad, but because it was the third most expensive film of 1980, at $35 million (in that year, Empire Strikes Back was made for $18 million), and failed so stupendously that it is now remembered as one of those few rare bombs that are so terrible that they actually bankrupt the studio that made them; see also Battlefield Earth, Masters of the Universe (or Superman 4, both did Cannon in), and Cutthroat Island.
The implication of a comparison to Heaven's Gate is that it is not only terrible, but so hideously expensive ($237 million) that it could bankrupt Fox. Which almost happened once before.
This decriminalization may be the first sign that he is accepting the fact that narcotics is an integral part of Mexican culture.
I was with you up until this last sentence. I know you're not trying to be racist...
There is however a definite, long-standing trend in Mexican culture to assert independence from the gringoes, alternating with catering to their vices, mainly through prostitution and smuggling.
Personally I have never understood why people are so convinced the solution to everything is the "free-market".
Because it is simple and morally destitute. If an economy is formed by actors that are completely rational, free and efficient, then everyone who is poor and destitute obviously had it coming.
Also see panglossianism, and the long-standing tradition of certain popular philosophers to cater to the prejudices, and salve the aching consciences, of the rich and powerful, and to let them know that, yes, everything is A-OK with you in charge.
I seem to recall them selling off their PC business to a Chinese company a few years ago, calls itself "Lenovo." In 2007 IBM sold it's printing division to Ricoh; in 2002 it sold its chipset business... All that will be left are a bunch of smart people who tell you what to spend your money on, aside from their gold-plated advice. And those smart people will live and consume wherever it makes sense for them to do so.
If the question really is silly, then it's an honest answer
There's no such thing as a stupid question, particularly from an employer. The difference between an adequate tech and a great tech is the great tech can answer a stupid question in such a way that enlightens the asker without insulting their intelligence.
Of course this is slashdot, so I'm not surprised to find casually insulting people posting here. You just don't realize.
Well it IS a lifestyle choice, but it doesn't get you denied insurance in the least.
If you are clinically obese, it absolutely can cause denial of insurance or recision, and pre-existing diabetes even moreso.
Saying that a question is silly is hardly an insult,
It presumes bad faith or ignorance on the part of the questioner. When having a polite conversation with a stranger, particularly one you wish to show deference, you should always give the speaker the benefit of the doubt, and never confront them for being ignorant or specious. Just concede they believe they know what they're talking about, indicate how this doesn't match your understanding of the issue, and move one. "Silly" is a put-down, and a woman in particular might consider this language to be condescending from a man. You might not consider that fair, but that's the breaks.
If they insult you, then you thank them for the interview and hang up. Haven't any of you ever done phone support before!?NEVER EVER EVER confront. It's simply never appropriate or effective.