I don't think it's the word just by itself that it's the problem here, but the pairing of the words Android and Nexus regarding the same product. It's hard not to see the connection.
Now, if Google had jumped straight to "Nexus 6", launched an ad campaign featuring Rutger Hauer, and offered a free lead codpiece or a $100 mail-in rebate on a genuine goat, there might have been a case.
Actually, it wouldn't have been such a bad idea. I mean come on, everyone knowing PKD can make the connection from Android to Nexus. I don't think this pairing of names is a coincidence, which is something I kinda like, since it shows there are some cool scifi nerds at Google:)
They - companies - are mostly just afraid that what they've been producing as things that could only be produced by a company, these things can these days be created by a bunch of people, without any company control over them. It just doesn't fit into their bussinness model, and they don't want to change what they had up to now - they do what they want and they ask as much for it as they want.
It's very similar to what the music "industry" (what a crazy word that is in that context) is - or at least should be - going through, also unwilling to change how their cash cows work.
Someone has to realize that you can't close the consumers out of the development process. After a while the efforts to keep you closed down will result in painful death.
These industries that have such problems now just can't seem willing to differentiate themselves from real industries, like coal mining, steel producing, and so on, but they are different. In an age where technological knowledge spreads faster than any disease, keeping customers out of your products - even more so when these products are based on open source results, which come from the those same customers - will cause you more harm than good.
Oracle should let Netbeans drift off into open source land. Perhaps it'll thrive? I don't know.
I fear that a Netbeans drifted into opensource land would become another Eclipse. Nothing wrong with that except I don't like Eclipse and I do like Netbeans 6.x, and I'm not alone.
Imagine setting up scripts like one in the demo for certain commands, like poweroff, hdd wipe, switching on/off heating/lighting, and so on. Now imagine a funny friend learning your trigger word. Now, how cool is that ?:))
I think what they mean was that it requires less electricity to remain straight on a flat plane going at a fixed speed.When you slow down to complete an S-curve or start going up a hill, your fuel consumption is drastically affected.
Yet, we shouldn't forget that this is still far from real life performance. The closest thing might be highway use in low traffic. No chance of driving 500 km, not even 390 km, in an urban environment, or in every day mixed high traffic city+highway use.
Failing arguments, just like COS members are so good in. You compare the dark ages practices in one hand to today's ones in the other. I'm sure we could list a thousand things a religion, a nation, etc. did a few hundred years ago that would be intolerable today. Times change, people change. Even religions change. If comparisons have to be done, compare religions of today and their current practices. And this was all the time I'll ever spend in a COS-related thread.
This guy is so good at writing resumes that he tells the rest of us how to write them as a job
Life can be a weird place. Like where someone having the guts stands up and says "I know stuff", then people around him who either don't know stuff or are just numb or shy or unexperienced say "look, he knows stuff", and after a while a lot of people will know that there's a guy who knows stuff. At that point, that fella doesn't even need to know anything anymore.
I have not had a 1 page resume in 20 years. I seem to make all the automated HR filters too... I just wonder if that is connected?:)
The one-page resume was invented by people who don't have anything meaningful to fill more than a page with, and by idiot HR people who are lazy to carefully evaluate CVs.
That said, when I see someone fill a page with stuff that for me and my colleagues is a nornal daily routine trying to sell it as something exceptional (well, age can become an issue here), now that's when I know someone's full of crap.
Also, those HR people who only hunt for buzzwords... wake up and smell the coffee. Wait, you don't have to, you already have the job you wanted, right?
NO one should be allowed to get this deal. That's sort of the whole point.
Well, maybe someone will be allowed to have a deal where they can rip us off more than before, and everyone will be happy - except us. All this is more about money than (C), always will be.
No idea why people are so keen on protecting Google though.
Might have something to do with how this book scanning venture is good for the people. It makes content more accessible, and that is always good. Well, for some it's not so good, but their goal is usually only monetary gain, which is a totally different point of view.
The volunteers then spent seven minutes chatting to male or female members of the research team before repeating the test. The results showed that men were slower and less accurate
Funny speculations. What I'd say from my experience is that while I'm in the US, I never torrent any tv series, since I can watch them on the channels' sites or on Hulu. And that's a big one taken away from torrent to stream-based watching. And let's be serious, most of current series aren't that good that anyone (well, not me that's for sure) would want to store and keep them for eternity, so streamed watching is a bless. I'd say if we could access the channels' websites and Hulu from Europe, that would mean a large decrease in traffic. I know it's not just episodes that people are torrenting, still, I'd say it's a fairly large part of it.
And yes, I know about the different octane ratings used in the US, still, a 91 US rating (which is not the most broadly used one) is ~95 Euro rating, which is the most broadly used, but 98 and 100 are also not that rare (I almost always use 98).
Well, for one, on my first US visit I was shocked to see 8x octane gas being used, I found that to be a rather bad joke. The whole "mid grade" stuff should've been dropped and forgotten ages ago.
The amount of effort going into making passenger cars more efficient is absurd.
Well, it isn't if you only look at the US car makers, and yes, it is, if you look globally. I mean come on, just look at the ratios of engine size, power, torque, fuel efficiency, even vehicle weight (totally unrelated to security in many cases), some data you'll find to be pretty laughable in comparison.
This a very extraordinary car. It's mpg rating can grow even without any cent of further investment into efficiency increasing r&d. Just come out with a new grid power to mpg conversion formula, and you're done. So, if they say the battery does 40 mpg, and turning the gas engine on to charge the batteries gives 50 mpg, to achieve 230 mpg you'll need how many gallons in the tank ? And an additional important question: 230 mpg means nothing if the batteries and the gas combined can't take you 230 miles away before running out of both current and gas, so how far can the Volt take you in reality ?
Thing is, you really shouldn't forget where this olympiad originated. E.g. when we were in 1st year in highschool (yes, I'm originally from eastern europe) we already through all basics (c64, q, gw, turbo) and were doing pascal and c, later c++, and during highschool years we had plenty of time and requirements (4 hours math/week, 4 hours informatics theory+4 hours practice/week) for coding all kinds of algorithms with math that reached well into university level (in graph theory, numeric algorithms, and so on). The competition to get into such an olympiad was fierce, and the local qualifying rounds sometimes had harder tasks than the competition itself. I also had some book back in the days, which had collections of older tasks given on previous olympiads with solutions and tips:) Where I'm going with this is that when you say the aims of the ioi/acm competitions should be reverse, you should take into consideration their past, and the tradition of teaching stuff in the respective regions.
As the idea about competition in architecture... well, the ones who can't code:P should also have their competition, so why not?:P
Also, when you say that SW Dev. consists of those independent skills, I call bollocks. The "enabling teamwork" part I leave that to the PR dept., the rest should be a mix in every good coder.
Bullshit! you can't buy happiness with money. I've known lots of millionaires and they are all miserable people and nuts to boot.
That only proves that the ones you met were dumb. Smart people would know how to balance earning good money with happiness. Also, being an asshole doesn't mean (s)he isn't happy, it just means asshole behavior towards you/others. If happiness means doing something you enjoy, well, having money can broaden the possibilties for you to do something you enjoy more. For some people thinking positively doesn't cut it, since the day can bring a lot of bad sh*t through the window that positive thinking in itself can't solve.
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I don't think it's the word just by itself that it's the problem here, but the pairing of the words Android and Nexus regarding the same product. It's hard not to see the connection.
Now, if Google had jumped straight to "Nexus 6", launched an ad campaign featuring Rutger Hauer, and offered a free lead codpiece or a $100 mail-in rebate on a genuine goat, there might have been a case.
:)
Actually, it wouldn't have been such a bad idea. I mean come on, everyone knowing PKD can make the connection from Android to Nexus. I don't think this pairing of names is a coincidence, which is something I kinda like, since it shows there are some cool scifi nerds at Google
They - companies - are mostly just afraid that what they've been producing as things that could only be produced by a company, these things can these days be created by a bunch of people, without any company control over them. It just doesn't fit into their bussinness model, and they don't want to change what they had up to now - they do what they want and they ask as much for it as they want.
It's very similar to what the music "industry" (what a crazy word that is in that context) is - or at least should be - going through, also unwilling to change how their cash cows work.
Someone has to realize that you can't close the consumers out of the development process. After a while the efforts to keep you closed down will result in painful death.
These industries that have such problems now just can't seem willing to differentiate themselves from real industries, like coal mining, steel producing, and so on, but they are different. In an age where technological knowledge spreads faster than any disease, keeping customers out of your products - even more so when these products are based on open source results, which come from the those same customers - will cause you more harm than good.
The search technology company has shipped a new version of the Google Chrome Frame (version 4.0.245.1) with a patch for the vulnerability.
Case closed.
Makes you wish IE flaws were so short-lived.
Oracle should let Netbeans drift off into open source land. Perhaps it'll thrive? I don't know.
I fear that a Netbeans drifted into opensource land would become another Eclipse. Nothing wrong with that except I don't like Eclipse and I do like Netbeans 6.x, and I'm not alone.
Man, was Turbo Pascal a great environment, or was it?
Oh, memories... Nice ones too.
Imagine setting up scripts like one in the demo for certain commands, like poweroff, hdd wipe, switching on/off heating/lighting, and so on. Now imagine a funny friend learning your trigger word. Now, how cool is that ? :))
I think what they mean was that it requires less electricity to remain straight on a flat plane going at a fixed speed.When you slow down to complete an S-curve or start going up a hill, your fuel consumption is drastically affected.
Yet, we shouldn't forget that this is still far from real life performance. The closest thing might be highway use in low traffic. No chance of driving 500 km, not even 390 km, in an urban environment, or in every day mixed high traffic city+highway use.
Sounds just like Christianity and Islam to me.
Failing arguments, just like COS members are so good in. You compare the dark ages practices in one hand to today's ones in the other. I'm sure we could list a thousand things a religion, a nation, etc. did a few hundred years ago that would be intolerable today. Times change, people change. Even religions change. If comparisons have to be done, compare religions of today and their current practices. And this was all the time I'll ever spend in a COS-related thread.
This guy is so good at writing resumes that he tells the rest of us how to write them as a job
Life can be a weird place. Like where someone having the guts stands up and says "I know stuff", then people around him who either don't know stuff or are just numb or shy or unexperienced say "look, he knows stuff", and after a while a lot of people will know that there's a guy who knows stuff. At that point, that fella doesn't even need to know anything anymore.
I have not had a 1 page resume in 20 years. I seem to make all the automated HR filters too... I just wonder if that is connected? :)
The one-page resume was invented by people who don't have anything meaningful to fill more than a page with, and by idiot HR people who are lazy to carefully evaluate CVs.
That said, when I see someone fill a page with stuff that for me and my colleagues is a nornal daily routine trying to sell it as something exceptional (well, age can become an issue here), now that's when I know someone's full of crap.
Also, those HR people who only hunt for buzzwords... wake up and smell the coffee. Wait, you don't have to, you already have the job you wanted, right?
NO one should be allowed to get this deal. That's sort of the whole point.
Well, maybe someone will be allowed to have a deal where they can rip us off more than before, and everyone will be happy - except us. All this is more about money than (C), always will be.
No idea why people are so keen on protecting Google though.
Might have something to do with how this book scanning venture is good for the people. It makes content more accessible, and that is always good. Well, for some it's not so good, but their goal is usually only monetary gain, which is a totally different point of view.
The volunteers then spent seven minutes chatting to male or female members of the research team before repeating the test. The results showed that men were slower and less accurate
:)
Wow, that's gotta be some team
How about we clean up the patent system inside the US before we push our system outside of the US?
Because a foggy, bushy system generally suits the big players more, that's why.
However, if they bring the sw patent nonsense over the pond, I'd be the first to volunteer on that one-way trip to Mars.
Funny speculations. What I'd say from my experience is that while I'm in the US, I never torrent any tv series, since I can watch them on the channels' sites or on Hulu. And that's a big one taken away from torrent to stream-based watching. And let's be serious, most of current series aren't that good that anyone (well, not me that's for sure) would want to store and keep them for eternity, so streamed watching is a bless. I'd say if we could access the channels' websites and Hulu from Europe, that would mean a large decrease in traffic. I know it's not just episodes that people are torrenting, still, I'd say it's a fairly large part of it.
And yes, I know about the different octane ratings used in the US, still, a 91 US rating (which is not the most broadly used one) is ~95 Euro rating, which is the most broadly used, but 98 and 100 are also not that rare (I almost always use 98).
1 Gal Gasoline (mid grade) = 125,000 Btu's
Well, for one, on my first US visit I was shocked to see 8x octane gas being used, I found that to be a rather bad joke. The whole "mid grade" stuff should've been dropped and forgotten ages ago.
The amount of effort going into making passenger cars more efficient is absurd.
Well, it isn't if you only look at the US car makers, and yes, it is, if you look globally. I mean come on, just look at the ratios of engine size, power, torque, fuel efficiency, even vehicle weight (totally unrelated to security in many cases), some data you'll find to be pretty laughable in comparison.
This a very extraordinary car. It's mpg rating can grow even without any cent of further investment into efficiency increasing r&d. Just come out with a new grid power to mpg conversion formula, and you're done. So, if they say the battery does 40 mpg, and turning the gas engine on to charge the batteries gives 50 mpg, to achieve 230 mpg you'll need how many gallons in the tank ? And an additional important question: 230 mpg means nothing if the batteries and the gas combined can't take you 230 miles away before running out of both current and gas, so how far can the Volt take you in reality ?
You just put a candle in front of the damn receiver box and be done with it.
Thing is, you really shouldn't forget where this olympiad originated. E.g. when we were in 1st year in highschool (yes, I'm originally from eastern europe) we already through all basics (c64, q, gw, turbo) and were doing pascal and c, later c++, and during highschool years we had plenty of time and requirements (4 hours math/week, 4 hours informatics theory+4 hours practice/week) for coding all kinds of algorithms with math that reached well into university level (in graph theory, numeric algorithms, and so on). The competition to get into such an olympiad was fierce, and the local qualifying rounds sometimes had harder tasks than the competition itself. I also had some book back in the days, which had collections of older tasks given on previous olympiads with solutions and tips :) Where I'm going with this is that when you say the aims of the ioi/acm competitions should be reverse, you should take into consideration their past, and the tradition of teaching stuff in the respective regions.
:P should also have their competition, so why not? :P
As the idea about competition in architecture... well, the ones who can't code
Also, when you say that SW Dev. consists of those independent skills, I call bollocks. The "enabling teamwork" part I leave that to the PR dept., the rest should be a mix in every good coder.
Bullshit! you can't buy happiness with money. I've known lots of millionaires and they are all miserable people and nuts to boot.
That only proves that the ones you met were dumb. Smart people would know how to balance earning good money with happiness. Also, being an asshole doesn't mean (s)he isn't happy, it just means asshole behavior towards you/others. If happiness means doing something you enjoy, well, having money can broaden the possibilties for you to do something you enjoy more. For some people thinking positively doesn't cut it, since the day can bring a lot of bad sh*t through the window that positive thinking in itself can't solve.
rent their social security number out to illegal immigrants
Geez, now that really sounds stupid.
[...]which makes the risk of overlapping[...] should've been "which lowers the risk..." (sorry)