At least one of the cases described in the linked article should be grounds for legal action, at the very least dismissal of these surgeons from their jobs. Case #2 seems a collection of mistakes and errors: was permission granted by or even asked from the family? Dismissing objections of one of the teammembers? Designated target dies before even receiving liver and the donor dies as well? I mean... this sounds like a case for a law school, not for medical school.
However... most donations are rigged with very careful procedures precisely because of all the legal pitfalls. Given the good it does to help with the mourning process of the family of the donor, and the good it does on the other side, there is a powerful drive to make sure we improve this procedure.
And also: more research on stem cells is desperately needed.
I meant within the supported development set, and getting them to extend that supported development set. Not "hey here's my app and I need this library" but just asking in advance to extend their platform.
They won't do it for just any developer. But yes, they will do it if you're from a big company and have serious backing and a very good reason *FOR THEM* to improve their platform *because they will make more profits*. And they will actually listen to people doing elevator pitches. Google reps don't even listen.
Your link to the Microsoft page is about the pricing policy on the XBox... hardly indicative of their stance towards developers.
Apple had a beef with Flash and scripting languages for reasons having to do with battery usage. Not completely stupid, actually. Why allow unskilled developers on your platform anyway, it will probably just lead to more fart apps. Geniuses, they're not. A competent developer can switch to objective-C in a day.
But the whole point was: how easy is it to actually get support from them when you have a good idea and need extensions in their environment? Well, pretty darn easy if you have a really good idea.
But with Google it's plain impossible, they won't even talk to you. And when you have a 90 billion dollar revenue company backing you, this attitude is simply stupid in terms of their business.
Cool down the disk to a point where you can measure the temperature changes really well. Now start the encryption. How much information does the change in temperature of the disk (or SSD, or RAM) give you? Could be interesting.
If you need anything beyond the currently supported standards, Microsoft and Apple are surprisingly easy to work with. Google just flips you the finger. That alone is driving programmers and companies away already, including one of the biggest companies in the world. Google needs to get its act together and listen better to the community. Especially if said customers have the backing of a huge multinational and are pissed off at the support it's (not) getting.
Banks limit damages if they split accounts. For instance, if you have the bulk of your money in a savings account with a 1-day delay for transfers, you have a 1-day grace period in which to report cards stolen and have them blocked, without the bulk of your life savings disappearing into foreign accounts.
Also, banks make more money off the split accounts because they give you a savings account that pays interest and a normal account that does not. Saves them only a small amount on each account but these small amounts add up.
I never knew that until a friend tried to deal with them on changes to the Android API's (he works for a VERY large company and they needed extra abilities). They didn't even deign to reply.
Nokia, Microsoft and Apple not only provided helpful assistance but actively invested to get his solution on their platform. Big difference. Google is going to shoot itself in the foot with that "If you don't work here, you're stupid and can't be taken serious" attitude.
If they started blackmailing, the political position of their remaining allies would quickly become totally untenable. They could give hints, saying "well... we'd like to have more influence on the security council... nudge nudge wink wink"... but that's about it.
As a deterrent to actually invading them when they start shooting dissidents in lots of 10000, now that is quite another matter. It would be very effective in doing exactly that - which is why a nuke is a bad thing mostly for the Iranians themselves, and not so much anyone else.
The problem is that if there is no evidence of any harm (was the child displayed in the pictures?) and there is evidence of someone "doing the right thing" by going to the police when it was MUCH easier to delete evidence, there is little risk in letting the existing situation go on for a while until more information becomes available. But there is obvious harm in not allowing the child to see her father at this young age. And that is quite apart from the stress on the marriage which will impact the child as well.
Apparently the risk/benefit analysis of the CPA runs as follows: any risk at all to our reputation is unacceptable. Any damage at all to the parents is not our problem. As long as the child is physically okay, we're good.
Personally, I find that shortsighted and revolting.
Stop... Giving... them... ideas. OK? They might take you seriously. If they could, they would arrest everyone in sight. just in case.
I second this. I was once part of a student movement where the student union had the really stupid idea of giving insane recommendations to the Ministry about how to cut even more funding to students and teachers. The response from the department was: "Thank you - we see several suggestions we are already actively considering and a few more we didn't think of before but will now consider seriously."
Really, don't *ever* give stupid suggestions to stupid people. They just may do it.
in fact, I've never once seen a historically accurate account of any protest who's stated goals were to get tangled with the police, who have a 1,500 win, 0 loss record against protest movements.
I would like to point to the Black Panthers as an example of a movement doing precisely that. Yeah I know how that ended up - a state that can throw billions of dollars at a problem can always repress much better than a handfull of activists. Still, they did that. It didn't come out of the blue though, so to speak. The police had a long history of repression especially where the BP started.
Also: the Stonewall riots (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots). It started with the routine shakedown of gay customers in a gay bar by police and ended up with huge riots as they finally couldn't stand it anymore and decided to fight the police. The movement that came out of that little incident did have a very lasting impact.
Most protest movements don't start out that way though. But when they get repressed it doesn't take long to identify the police as the mailed fist of the state and react accordingly. Witness the Tahrir movement's response to the police in Egypt for a very recent example.
If you're found to operate a Hawala shop you will be investigated under the anti-terrorism act in The Netherlands. I can assure you that you'd much rather rob a bank.
In the early days of LinkedIn I connected with the director of small R&D team I worked with years before. This individual went on to become a well known executive in the industry we worked in. Based merely on this connection I get frequent InMail connection requests from companies looking for executive level personnel. If these people bothered read my profile it would be readily apparent that I have neither the desire or experience required for such a position. An unscrupulous person in my situation could quite possibly make a quick buck, although it would likely be a career ending move to do so.
Being incompetent has never stopped anyone from being an executive. I wouldn't worry about it, you're probably overqualified as it is.
Actually, they worked amazingly well. Humans or even primates have yet to come close to the length of time they dominated the planet. Only when circumstances changed drastically, they were unable to survive.
Humanity is ever trying to close the gap with the dinosaurs in that area but failing so far. However, the current experiment in geo-engineering are going to be quite helpful towards the goal of catching up with the dinosaurs.
In The Netherlands there was a new government going to the Queen to be sworn in in July 2002, and at one point an additional minister nobody knew popped up:) He had rented an expensive car and a new suit, and announced himself as the "Minister of the Environment". The palace guards allowed him in. Unfortunately for them, there was no minister for the environment - he was an activist:)
He tried the same trick 6 months later and got all the way into parliament, helpfully escorted by security:)
In no company I've ever worked that would get you in. In at least two companies I wasn't even allowed near the service centre, even when I paid for the hardware. Data centres are usually guarded closer than a dragon's gold, and access is almost always doublechecked with the sysadmins.
I understand your sarcasm, but it fits really well with re-reading a very old SF book I read last night. "When they came from space", Mark Clifton (1961). He discusses the attitude of self-righteous people as the root cause of much slaughter. How true it is.
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Also. What have the Greeks done lately. I mean sure. Birth of western civilization and all but what about the last 2000 years?
They rested :P
At least one of the cases described in the linked article should be grounds for legal action, at the very least dismissal of these surgeons from their jobs. Case #2 seems a collection of mistakes and errors: was permission granted by or even asked from the family? Dismissing objections of one of the teammembers? Designated target dies before even receiving liver and the donor dies as well? I mean... this sounds like a case for a law school, not for medical school.
However... most donations are rigged with very careful procedures precisely because of all the legal pitfalls. Given the good it does to help with the mourning process of the family of the donor, and the good it does on the other side, there is a powerful drive to make sure we improve this procedure.
And also: more research on stem cells is desperately needed.
I meant within the supported development set, and getting them to extend that supported development set. Not "hey here's my app and I need this library" but just asking in advance to extend their platform.
They won't do it for just any developer. But yes, they will do it if you're from a big company and have serious backing and a very good reason *FOR THEM* to improve their platform *because they will make more profits*. And they will actually listen to people doing elevator pitches. Google reps don't even listen.
Your link to the Microsoft page is about the pricing policy on the XBox... hardly indicative of their stance towards developers.
Apple had a beef with Flash and scripting languages for reasons having to do with battery usage. Not completely stupid, actually. Why allow unskilled developers on your platform anyway, it will probably just lead to more fart apps. Geniuses, they're not. A competent developer can switch to objective-C in a day.
But the whole point was: how easy is it to actually get support from them when you have a good idea and need extensions in their environment? Well, pretty darn easy if you have a really good idea.
But with Google it's plain impossible, they won't even talk to you. And when you have a 90 billion dollar revenue company backing you, this attitude is simply stupid in terms of their business.
Or, in reverse:
Cool down the disk to a point where you can measure the temperature changes really well. Now start the encryption. How much information does the change in temperature of the disk (or SSD, or RAM) give you? Could be interesting.
What do you want to bet most of the hardware the UN purchases will be manufactured behind the Iron Firewall?
I don't know, but I can ask our outsourced procurement office in China :)
If you make 300-600 on one app you're in the top tier of developers. More than 90% make no money at all, after counting cost.
And that's a pretty stupid rename, IMO.
I go to the market to BUY stuff. I go to the playground to PLAY. If I were an Android developer I'd be very unhappy about this.
If you need anything beyond the currently supported standards, Microsoft and Apple are surprisingly easy to work with. Google just flips you the finger. That alone is driving programmers and companies away already, including one of the biggest companies in the world. Google needs to get its act together and listen better to the community. Especially if said customers have the backing of a huge multinational and are pissed off at the support it's (not) getting.
Banks limit damages if they split accounts. For instance, if you have the bulk of your money in a savings account with a 1-day delay for transfers, you have a 1-day grace period in which to report cards stolen and have them blocked, without the bulk of your life savings disappearing into foreign accounts.
Also, banks make more money off the split accounts because they give you a savings account that pays interest and a normal account that does not. Saves them only a small amount on each account but these small amounts add up.
I never knew that until a friend tried to deal with them on changes to the Android API's (he works for a VERY large company and they needed extra abilities). They didn't even deign to reply.
Nokia, Microsoft and Apple not only provided helpful assistance but actively invested to get his solution on their platform. Big difference. Google is going to shoot itself in the foot with that "If you don't work here, you're stupid and can't be taken serious" attitude.
Fat chance they'd get any of that.
If they started blackmailing, the political position of their remaining allies would quickly become totally untenable. They could give hints, saying "well... we'd like to have more influence on the security council... nudge nudge wink wink"... but that's about it.
As a deterrent to actually invading them when they start shooting dissidents in lots of 10000, now that is quite another matter. It would be very effective in doing exactly that - which is why a nuke is a bad thing mostly for the Iranians themselves, and not so much anyone else.
The problem is that if there is no evidence of any harm (was the child displayed in the pictures?) and there is evidence of someone "doing the right thing" by going to the police when it was MUCH easier to delete evidence, there is little risk in letting the existing situation go on for a while until more information becomes available. But there is obvious harm in not allowing the child to see her father at this young age. And that is quite apart from the stress on the marriage which will impact the child as well.
Apparently the risk/benefit analysis of the CPA runs as follows: any risk at all to our reputation is unacceptable. Any damage at all to the parents is not our problem. As long as the child is physically okay, we're good.
Personally, I find that shortsighted and revolting.
Stop... Giving... them... ideas. OK? They might take you seriously. If they could, they would arrest everyone in sight. just in case.
I second this. I was once part of a student movement where the student union had the really stupid idea of giving insane recommendations to the Ministry about how to cut even more funding to students and teachers. The response from the department was: "Thank you - we see several suggestions we are already actively considering and a few more we didn't think of before but will now consider seriously."
Really, don't *ever* give stupid suggestions to stupid people. They just may do it.
I see you read Conan too :) (the Barbarian one, not O'Brian :))
That was a fun episode. It reminded me of the saying "beware of what you wish for - it might come true."
Oh come on! If you leave the city and go straight north for 10 miles, you can still exercise that right in your designated "Free Speech Zone"(tm) :)
in fact, I've never once seen a historically accurate account of any protest who's stated goals were to get tangled with the police, who have a 1,500 win, 0 loss record against protest movements.
I would like to point to the Black Panthers as an example of a movement doing precisely that. Yeah I know how that ended up - a state that can throw billions of dollars at a problem can always repress much better than a handfull of activists. Still, they did that. It didn't come out of the blue though, so to speak. The police had a long history of repression especially where the BP started.
Also: the Stonewall riots (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots). It started with the routine shakedown of gay customers in a gay bar by police and ended up with huge riots as they finally couldn't stand it anymore and decided to fight the police. The movement that came out of that little incident did have a very lasting impact.
Most protest movements don't start out that way though. But when they get repressed it doesn't take long to identify the police as the mailed fist of the state and react accordingly. Witness the Tahrir movement's response to the police in Egypt for a very recent example.
If you're found to operate a Hawala shop you will be investigated under the anti-terrorism act in The Netherlands. I can assure you that you'd much rather rob a bank.
In the early days of LinkedIn I connected with the director of small R&D team I worked with years before. This individual went on to become a well known executive in the industry we worked in. Based merely on this connection I get frequent InMail connection requests from companies looking for executive level personnel. If these people bothered read my profile it would be readily apparent that I have neither the desire or experience required for such a position. An unscrupulous person in my situation could quite possibly make a quick buck, although it would likely be a career ending move to do so.
Being incompetent has never stopped anyone from being an executive. I wouldn't worry about it, you're probably overqualified as it is.
If you've ever come back from vacation and got jumped by a few million fleas, desperate for some blood, you'll cringe even more.
Oh cool, I think I just may have found the scenario for "Jurassic Park IV" :)
Actually, they worked amazingly well. Humans or even primates have yet to come close to the length of time they dominated the planet. Only when circumstances changed drastically, they were unable to survive.
Humanity is ever trying to close the gap with the dinosaurs in that area but failing so far. However, the current experiment in geo-engineering are going to be quite helpful towards the goal of catching up with the dinosaurs.
In The Netherlands there was a new government going to the Queen to be sworn in in July 2002, and at one point an additional minister nobody knew popped up :) He had rented an expensive car and a new suit, and announced himself as the "Minister of the Environment". The palace guards allowed him in. Unfortunately for them, there was no minister for the environment - he was an activist :)
He tried the same trick 6 months later and got all the way into parliament, helpfully escorted by security :)
In no company I've ever worked that would get you in. In at least two companies I wasn't even allowed near the service centre, even when I paid for the hardware. Data centres are usually guarded closer than a dragon's gold, and access is almost always doublechecked with the sysadmins.
I understand your sarcasm, but it fits really well with re-reading a very old SF book I read last night. "When they came from space", Mark Clifton (1961). He discusses the attitude of self-righteous people as the root cause of much slaughter. How true it is.