Firefox is my pornographic browser of choice. However, I often encounter memory consumption that brings my computer to its knees. Please advise on what you can do to erect this situation.
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I can vouch for this in the Canadian public sector. The government filters out resumes that do not contain every single keyword listed as 'necessary skills / experience'. It is equally ridiculous as it is frustrating. You can't convince a computer that experience in one area can translate into another: it has to be on the resume.
So for those currently on the hunt for employment with the federal government, be forewarned that your resume will be filtered out immediately by either the employment agencies or the computer if you are missing just one skill.
You only think I guessed wrong - that's what's so funny. I switched characters when your back was turned. Ha-ha, you fool. You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia", but only slightly less well known is this: "Never go in against a news anchor, when comedy is on the line.".
Just one great reason why we need real news anchors.
So a disagreement over the appropriateness/applicability of their development model implies I hate Google? Before you jump to such conclusions, it might be informative to know that I use Google search every day.
Let's take a leap off the "it's amazing to work at Google" mentality that has been championed by more people that do not work at Google than those who do. Most of the points raised by the author appear amazing from a developer's perspective, but not from a business view.
Developers can switch teams and/or projects any time they want, no questions asked; just say the word and the movers will show up the next day to put you in your new office with your new team.
Having developers on a merry-go-round between projects is probably a good reason why their products never make it past the Beta stage (which is terrible).
There aren't very many meetings. I'd say an average developer attends perhaps 3 meetings a week.
One meeting a week should be sufficient. Three meetings a week spells inefficiency and poor process.
there aren't Gantt charts or date-task-owner spreadsheets or any other visible project-management artifacts in evidence, not that I've ever seen.
Okay, so now we're advocating against the use of project management techniques? Let's piss in the wind and hope it lands where we intended?
even during the relatively rare crunch periods, people still go get lunch and dinner, which are (famously) always free and tasty, and they don't work insane hours unless they want to.
There is tasty food everywhere in this world. Why does it need to be constantly emphasized that Google has tasty food? Google is a software company, not a restaurant. And secondly, the author makes it seem that in crunch periods, companies other than Google do not allow their employees to have lunch and dinner. I somehow suspect (legally, personally, ethically, etc.) that is not the case. Are the employees of EA starving during their crunch periods?:)
The point here is that Agile Development is a good model if its used properly. Using Google as an example to demonstrate how Agile is good, however, is a mistake. Subscribing to Google's use of Agile is a recipe for disaster.
I'd love to believe that. But given the fact that Yahoo just tendered $900 million for Facebook while leaving much of the company's structure unruffled, one billion or more isn't out of the question for a notorious web service. At least it's getting closer to the $2 billion they really desire.
Americans especially, and some other westerners are WAY too much indulged in their own well being that, EVERYTHING is taken as a disaster when the unbelievably minimal, almost non-existent threat to life occurs. (as if a flushed ipod by a kid can EVER be, and as terrorists DO tell that they flushed a bomb disguised as an ipod)
It's not that people are too indulged in their own well-being, it's that they are indulged in everyone's well-being (100-250 people). A flight crew would rather inconvenience someone for a few hours than inconvenience those people's families with the death of their loves ones because they ignored a possible threat, however minute it may seem in retrospect.
I confidently suspect if you were his former employer and received millions of e-mails from this young lad, you would be just as adamant that this unsolicited bulk emailing, in every view of the defintion and understanding of spam (not limited to just the parameters you listed), would qualify as such.
Is the current emphasis on data storage and communication really just a fad?
No, not at all. The current emphasis on storage/communication/collaboration is the due to the business world recognizing the capabilities of what computing can do for them. Most businesses are not interested in the computational power of computing as much as they are the expenditure-reducing, labour-reducing and capability-increasing power of computing. The present computations revolve around business logic. Typically the business world holds a much different perspective on how a computer is useful to them.
Excel works, and a lot of people use it, but it doesn't seem to be a "killer app" for much of anybody anymore
Excel was and still is a very powerful too. There really isn't a subtitute for it. Personal, business, and government all use it. Microsoft Office isn't popular by coincidence -- the Excel, Access, Word, etc., suite is very powerful for all categories of work.
Seriously, if the offer is that someone can data-mine everything on my PC and send me lots of pop-ups, spam, and flash banners, then no thanks.
Are you kidding? You already pay for that with your Internet subscription. But you might reject: "No I don't! Everything is blocked". And you would be right. Except the only way those things are circumvented is due to third party software and/or knowledge, likely not your own. You are paying for advertising, you just aren't seeing it. Everytime you visit Slashdot or another website, you are paying for advertisements whether you like it or not.
So really, is it necessary to complain that much? Advertising is a fact of life and we've already established that you pay for it. So what's the problem with a free Internet (and hardware) that runs the same advertisements that will be seen by paying customers anyway?
Walk into your bank and invest in a mutual fund. It's easy and free to do, you will get plenty of advice, and there is someone managing your investment for you. Best of all, you can pick a mutual fund that is more aggressive or steady depending on your willingless to possibly lose some to gain more.
And to boot, you can withdraw your investment at any time. Usually takes 1-2 business days to take effect.
Really? Aren't the damages in this particular case supposed to be fees that advertisers paid to Google that they shouldn't have paid?
Not at all. You would start with the percentage of fees paid that were fraudulent as the base amount.
Then you add in the opportunity cost of, a) lost revenue for the duration of the AdSense subscription; b) fees that could have been paid to a more accurate advertiser for the duration of the AdSense subscription; c) time spent trying to track down and discover that the majority of clicks were fraudulent, and; d) the list goes on!
So it is much more than just what you paid for that turned out to be fraudulent. The opportunity cost of fraudulent advertising is just massive.
I'm going to guess that it was considered, but since you are looking at 1/4 of the total laptop cost for a power source that is unusable after dark, it simply isn't in line with what they are trying to accomplish here.
I think you're confused. Bell Sympatico is not a monopoly. It is just another ISP of the many available out there (Cogeco, Rogers, AOL, and so forth) to Canadians.
Bell Canada, however, used to be a government-granted monopoly for regular phone systems. The monopoly ceased in 1997.
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SQL was created in the 1970's. So it is possible to have many years experience with SQL. Heck, it was adopted as a standard in 1986. That is plenty of time to accumulate much experience with SQL.
Customers become satisfied. MSFT destroys ever living competitor.
If the market is supplied with a quality product that removes the desire for substitutes, then the customer will not care about those substitutes since their satisfaction has been met. The "destroying" of all competitors then becomes irrelevant to everyone except those being beaten.
I can only look at so many pictures of half naked drunk teenagers before I get sick of it.
I hereby propose a motion to declare reldruH (956292) banished from Slashdot.org for reasons of not welcoming our half-naked Web 2.0 overlords, and, of course, for reasons of insanity.
For NYC, sure. That is obvious. But why all the way up to Canada? Outside of NYC and other heavily-populated areas are developers with rates much in line with mine. So what gives?
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Firefox is my pornographic browser of choice. However, I often encounter memory consumption that brings my computer to its knees. Please advise on what you can do to erect this situation.
Patiently waiting with one hand on the keyboard,
AutopsyReport
I can vouch for this in the Canadian public sector. The government filters out resumes that do not contain every single keyword listed as 'necessary skills / experience'. It is equally ridiculous as it is frustrating. You can't convince a computer that experience in one area can translate into another: it has to be on the resume.
So for those currently on the hunt for employment with the federal government, be forewarned that your resume will be filtered out immediately by either the employment agencies or the computer if you are missing just one skill.
You only think I guessed wrong - that's what's so funny. I switched characters when your back was turned. Ha-ha, you fool. You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia", but only slightly less well known is this: "Never go in against a news anchor, when comedy is on the line.".
Just one great reason why we need real news anchors.
So a disagreement over the appropriateness/applicability of their development model implies I hate Google? Before you jump to such conclusions, it might be informative to know that I use Google search every day.
Developers can switch teams and/or projects any time they want, no questions asked; just say the word and the movers will show up the next day to put you in your new office with your new team.
Having developers on a merry-go-round between projects is probably a good reason why their products never make it past the Beta stage (which is terrible).
There aren't very many meetings. I'd say an average developer attends perhaps 3 meetings a week.
One meeting a week should be sufficient. Three meetings a week spells inefficiency and poor process.
there aren't Gantt charts or date-task-owner spreadsheets or any other visible project-management artifacts in evidence, not that I've ever seen.
Okay, so now we're advocating against the use of project management techniques? Let's piss in the wind and hope it lands where we intended?
even during the relatively rare crunch periods, people still go get lunch and dinner, which are (famously) always free and tasty, and they don't work insane hours unless they want to.
There is tasty food everywhere in this world. Why does it need to be constantly emphasized that Google has tasty food? Google is a software company, not a restaurant. And secondly, the author makes it seem that in crunch periods, companies other than Google do not allow their employees to have lunch and dinner. I somehow suspect (legally, personally, ethically, etc.) that is not the case. Are the employees of EA starving during their crunch periods? :)
The point here is that Agile Development is a good model if its used properly. Using Google as an example to demonstrate how Agile is good, however, is a mistake. Subscribing to Google's use of Agile is a recipe for disaster.
You must have been loaded when you wrote that statement. Now where's the question? :)
I'd love to believe that. But given the fact that Yahoo just tendered $900 million for Facebook while leaving much of the company's structure unruffled, one billion or more isn't out of the question for a notorious web service. At least it's getting closer to the $2 billion they really desire.
Social networking has nothing but wonderful effects. Now what was that thing called "society" we're talking about?
Americans especially, and some other westerners are WAY too much indulged in their own well being that, EVERYTHING is taken as a disaster when the unbelievably minimal, almost non-existent threat to life occurs. (as if a flushed ipod by a kid can EVER be, and as terrorists DO tell that they flushed a bomb disguised as an ipod)
It's not that people are too indulged in their own well-being, it's that they are indulged in everyone's well-being (100-250 people). A flight crew would rather inconvenience someone for a few hours than inconvenience those people's families with the death of their loves ones because they ignored a possible threat, however minute it may seem in retrospect.
I confidently suspect if you were his former employer and received millions of e-mails from this young lad, you would be just as adamant that this unsolicited bulk emailing, in every view of the defintion and understanding of spam (not limited to just the parameters you listed), would qualify as such.
Is the current emphasis on data storage and communication really just a fad?
No, not at all. The current emphasis on storage/communication/collaboration is the due to the business world recognizing the capabilities of what computing can do for them. Most businesses are not interested in the computational power of computing as much as they are the expenditure-reducing, labour-reducing and capability-increasing power of computing. The present computations revolve around business logic. Typically the business world holds a much different perspective on how a computer is useful to them.
Excel works, and a lot of people use it, but it doesn't seem to be a "killer app" for much of anybody anymore
Excel was and still is a very powerful too. There really isn't a subtitute for it. Personal, business, and government all use it. Microsoft Office isn't popular by coincidence -- the Excel, Access, Word, etc., suite is very powerful for all categories of work.
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Seriously, if the offer is that someone can data-mine everything on my PC and send me lots of pop-ups, spam, and flash banners, then no thanks.
Are you kidding? You already pay for that with your Internet subscription. But you might reject: "No I don't! Everything is blocked". And you would be right. Except the only way those things are circumvented is due to third party software and/or knowledge, likely not your own. You are paying for advertising, you just aren't seeing it. Everytime you visit Slashdot or another website, you are paying for advertisements whether you like it or not.
So really, is it necessary to complain that much? Advertising is a fact of life and we've already established that you pay for it. So what's the problem with a free Internet (and hardware) that runs the same advertisements that will be seen by paying customers anyway?
Walk into your bank and invest in a mutual fund. It's easy and free to do, you will get plenty of advice, and there is someone managing your investment for you. Best of all, you can pick a mutual fund that is more aggressive or steady depending on your willingless to possibly lose some to gain more.
And to boot, you can withdraw your investment at any time. Usually takes 1-2 business days to take effect.
Really? Aren't the damages in this particular case supposed to be fees that advertisers paid to Google that they shouldn't have paid?
Not at all. You would start with the percentage of fees paid that were fraudulent as the base amount. Then you add in the opportunity cost of, a) lost revenue for the duration of the AdSense subscription; b) fees that could have been paid to a more accurate advertiser for the duration of the AdSense subscription; c) time spent trying to track down and discover that the majority of clicks were fraudulent, and; d) the list goes on!
So it is much more than just what you paid for that turned out to be fraudulent. The opportunity cost of fraudulent advertising is just massive.
Now just imagine a beowulf cluster of porn addicts powering everyone else's laptops!
I'm going to guess that it was considered, but since you are looking at 1/4 of the total laptop cost for a power source that is unusable after dark, it simply isn't in line with what they are trying to accomplish here.
Nope. Wrestling done in the nude would take the cake for the Olympics.
The new 'Go-For-The-Nuts-As-A-Last-Resort' Clinch
The 'I-Swear-Its-Not-Gay' Clinch
With a joke like that, I'm glad you included yourself in your estimate.
Who are you talking to? Get with the times, man. The Fleshlight is still virgin territory around here.
I think you're confused. Bell Sympatico is not a monopoly. It is just another ISP of the many available out there (Cogeco, Rogers, AOL, and so forth) to Canadians.
Bell Canada, however, used to be a government-granted monopoly for regular phone systems. The monopoly ceased in 1997.
SQL was created in the 1970's. So it is possible to have many years experience with SQL. Heck, it was adopted as a standard in 1986. That is plenty of time to accumulate much experience with SQL.
If the market is supplied with a quality product that removes the desire for substitutes, then the customer will not care about those substitutes since their satisfaction has been met. The "destroying" of all competitors then becomes irrelevant to everyone except those being beaten.
I hereby propose a motion to declare reldruH (956292) banished from Slashdot.org for reasons of not welcoming our half-naked Web 2.0 overlords, and, of course, for reasons of insanity.
For NYC, sure. That is obvious. But why all the way up to Canada? Outside of NYC and other heavily-populated areas are developers with rates much in line with mine. So what gives?