Exploiting??? What, as in offering them the opportunity to work in a job for a longer period of time...they don't have to stay here in the US if they don't want to you know.
which of course has nothing to with the evil Gates pursuing H1 visas. As it happens, the overwhelming majority of people I know that are fluent in the MS world (and I have known a lot) have been perfectly bright individuals. Of course the real programmer knows that OS type is not a factor in "code smartness" - every OS has its kinks.
I've not seen any of his movies either but I gather they're bad so I think I'll do better things with my time
Nonetheless, what I don't understand is this; isn't the "slashdot\geek way" to not censor or ban things and let him get on with it? Isn't it the normal response to say "just dont watch the movie if you don't want to" and just because you think its bad doesnt mean he should stop making the movies? Should GFA be banned if 18K parents sign a petition?
I remember first picking up on C++ in about 1991 using Borland C++...I even remember anxiously waiting for these things called Templates to be implemented.
I see them [NPR] as unbiased and, as a result, am often labeled a liberal.
But thats precisely the point - most people don't think that they themselves are biased. As a result you don't see the information you agree with as biased and thus consider yourself "center"...but all [news] information is biased in one form or another, even if its factual based. I would be considered right-wing, with a hint of moderatcy thrown in for good measure. But being liberal or conservative isn't how you see yourself but how you faire within society.
I enjoy NPR\PBS from time to time and would say both are pretty liberally biased. But I don't have blinkers on and realize that Fox equally leans the other way. And it can be subtle, do you refer people as Bush or President Bush, Clinton or Senator Clinton. I saw an article on PBS (I think) where a journalist in Iraq said its his job to report any news, mainly car bombings and the like, but not to report "nothing" because thats not news. So yes, he wasn't factually incorrect, and perhaps not even biased, but it does skew peoples perceptions.
Who said anything about fanatics being a nation? Some are, some aren't. It only takes one pissed off dictator in a moment of maddness (no pun intended) to kickstart the whole thing. People are more than prepared to lay down their lives for defending what they believe in, or to go down in a moment of glory (suicide bombers, kamakazee pilots).
You're right though, a vast majority of citizens don't want to be blown up but alas the 2 biggest concerns out there (read Iran and NK) are some of the ones least likely to listen to their citizens. Now having nukes might not help against Al Qaida but then you use a different strategy for those guys.
MAD only works when your opponent doesn't want to get blown up. It worked for the cold war because the Soviets, whilst on the other end of the political ideology, didnt want to get annhilated. This whole "lets give everyone nukes to be fair" is insanity. Fanatics, religious or otherwise, have becoming increasing powerful over the centuries in the destruction that they can cause. We need nukes to stay ahead of the curve - don't confuse "fairness" with equality. I'd rather much rather be "fair" for those that don't want death and destruction than to be equal with those that do.
Engineer : a person trained and skilled in the design, construction, and use of engines or machines.
I'm sorry, but you're talking nonsense. Engineering is the application of [applied] mathematics to create a machine of sorts. The "function in a visually appealing way" is the role of UI designer. The computer can't create or engineer something (even with AI \ fuzzy logic etc) - it can only follow a set of instructions and execute them exactly each time....but it takes an engineer to create those rules the first time. Sure, the computer can play role as a sophisticated tool to aid an engineer but it can not "figure out the details" itself and consequently is not the engineer.
if ALL employers are equally awful, then simply "finding a new job" doesn't do you any good
Or, like the original person[s] who started the companies you speak of, you could get off your backside and make your own living instead of EXPECTING a job to exist for you. The people who are doing well [financially] out of life are typically those that go out and create a living for themselves. That doesnt mean you have to start a new business per sae, but it means being creative about what you do and having the will to create something out of nothing.
You NEED a union as a check on the power of the company/employers.
What a load of bollox. We need unions like we need a hole in the head. Unions have proved to be the downfall of industry. Complaining too much, wanting to much in return for giving too little. If you dont like the demands of the job you entered into then get out and do something else. Whilst that wasnt always possible 100 years ago theres no excuse today. Unions serve not as group bargaining but as group whinging. And if that wasnt enough they put in place absurd demands - like here in California if you're a teacher you have to give part of your salary to union - where the hell is choice in that? Unions are self serving, self indulgent, hypocrits stuck in the 19th century.
Its not about the technology (tv-b-gone) and security - electrical tape will easily fix this particular issue. The point is that Gizmodo are idiots and made a choice to have some fun at somebody's expense. As a consequence people will quite rightly have reservations about these guys (and bloggers in general) because they have demonstrated that they are *capable* of causing disruption. Correct no lives were lost BUT I can gurrantee that if you were on the recieving end you wouldnt be laughing.
Heres a test: take some code somebody has been working on for 4 weeks and move it somewhere to make it look like its been deleted then watch them for a few hours whilst they try to explain to their boss what happened. You expect them to laugh once you produce the 'deleted' code? I mean it should be funny, no lives were lost right?
No, I expect school kids going into Best Buy doing this, not from people who want to be treated as professionals at a trade show. I guess my estimations of peoples thoughtfulness are too high. But on reflection you're right, I guess all companies should now expect to have to lock down every God damn piece of bloody equipment, physically and technologically because, you know, we should be expecting the worst in people.
No I shouldnt expect a prank like that. I expect that when millions of dollars are spent in one form of another (let alone the time and effort) at a professional trade show that people act as adults. Having to protect your equipment in this way is crazy and in the process they've lowered the expectations that companies now have to protect themselves against.
If they (or you) want a giggle at other peoples expense go and unplug the power cable for a couple of days from their web server and laugh your arses off.
Yes it has its idiosyncracies but we're talking about electing 1 person to lead 300m people. One has to compare it more to electoral dynamics of Europe rather than a single nation within Europe say. As a Brit I can certainly say that the UK has its own peculiar way of doing things but you don't realize it so much if you've grown up with it.
Well the comparitive size of email and docs to uncompressed video is only relevant if we're talking personal backups. And if we're talking personal backups then we're not typically talking uncompressed but HDV or something. A terabyte or two covers *most* personal backups easily enough at little cost. In 5 years duplicating personal video for backup will become even less of an issue - I would say $ per GB is shrinking faster than HD video is growing (in terms of space requirements).
For video production houses or the big boys in Hollywood who do want uncompressed backup the parents point is pretty valid due to the same reason of storage costs - its only going to become cheaper - just look at storage changes over the last 10 years and exponentialize that (is that a word?) over the next 10, 20 or 50 years. Now factor in video storage demands...we've gone from 720x480 to 1920x1080 in the last 30 years - its taken 10+ years just to get switched over to HD. The red camera is supposed to give us what, 4Kx4K but when is that going to become the norm...20 years time? And doesn't the "who cares about mega-pixel" attitude with digital cameras prove that there is natural limit to rez? The problem with digital photography is organization, not how difficult is it to archive them.
My point is that storage of uncompressed video will become utterly irrelevant in a fairly short order.
And one could argue that the need for "hunger relief" continues today because we haven't focused on the "hunger solution" years ago. The OLPC isn't going to save the children that are hungery today but it will go towards helping the children of tomorrow by educating them.
Its a bitter pill to swallow to divert funds from saving children today...but unfortuneately it only prolongs the problem. This is why I'm diverting my giving to something like http://www.kiva.org/
Well put. I would also add that multi-party systems tend to disproportionately favor 3rd and 4th place parties too much. This is due to them having the vote that pushes an issue over the 50% mark (or passing grade) and the 2 top parties trying to win their favor. At least with 2 party systems there is typically an outright winner and are wholly responsible for the outcomes of their policies.
So we took advantage of a State aide plan to help single mothers afford proper child birthing care.
Whilst not trying to sound callous this couple took action (and recieved financial help) that then made it the governments business. Now, it does sound like the government are overstepping their mark a bit (though the poster doesn't hightlight any ramifications of being on the list).
Your point is well made. The Wii is perfect for my 3 (primary school aged) daughters - the P3 or xbox is wasted on them - I doubt you could even get 'Cooking Mama' for either of those high end consoles! Not only that but all their friends equally love the Wii and none of them could care less about graphics, frames\sec etc.
Now for my colleagues at work its a completely different story - they want something high end
And as for me, I'm thinking about a Mac Mini as our entertainment console.
what 15 million?...so let me get this straight - CBS are willing to pay a single entertainer 15 million to appear on TV but complain that we reward 300 rocket scientists for their outstanding contributions who have to divvy up about 1/4 of that between them all? Wow, thats a new low.
Quite agree. If 1 million is the best that these reporters can come up to spin how Nasa wastes then I'm good with that. And I'd like to hear the rebuttal from Nasa. Besides theres far more problems with tax fraud that I'd rather get cleaned up.
Exactly. What kept the cold war at bay was MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction). Whilst the communists loathed the whole western democratic way of life they were equally keen not to be destroyed themselves. There was at least logic and processes that held up the USSR pressing the button. It seems that the powers that be in Iran (perhaps NKorea) see MAD as almost being a virtue.
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Exploiting??? What, as in offering them the opportunity to work in a job for a longer period of time...they don't have to stay here in the US if they don't want to you know.
which of course has nothing to with the evil Gates pursuing H1 visas. As it happens, the overwhelming majority of people I know that are fluent in the MS world (and I have known a lot) have been perfectly bright individuals. Of course the real programmer knows that OS type is not a factor in "code smartness" - every OS has its kinks.
Nonetheless, what I don't understand is this; isn't the "slashdot\geek way" to not censor or ban things and let him get on with it? Isn't it the normal response to say "just dont watch the movie if you don't want to" and just because you think its bad doesnt mean he should stop making the movies? Should GFA be banned if 18K parents sign a petition?
I remember first picking up on C++ in about 1991 using Borland C++...I even remember anxiously waiting for these things called Templates to be implemented.
But thats precisely the point - most people don't think that they themselves are biased. As a result you don't see the information you agree with as biased and thus consider yourself "center"...but all [news] information is biased in one form or another, even if its factual based. I would be considered right-wing, with a hint of moderatcy thrown in for good measure. But being liberal or conservative isn't how you see yourself but how you faire within society.
I enjoy NPR\PBS from time to time and would say both are pretty liberally biased. But I don't have blinkers on and realize that Fox equally leans the other way. And it can be subtle, do you refer people as Bush or President Bush, Clinton or Senator Clinton. I saw an article on PBS (I think) where a journalist in Iraq said its his job to report any news, mainly car bombings and the like, but not to report "nothing" because thats not news. So yes, he wasn't factually incorrect, and perhaps not even biased, but it does skew peoples perceptions.
Well, you could research it and provide evidence for your accusations...
Actually I read both of them as a single "one less reason to care about what OS you are running".
You're right though, a vast majority of citizens don't want to be blown up but alas the 2 biggest concerns out there (read Iran and NK) are some of the ones least likely to listen to their citizens. Now having nukes might not help against Al Qaida but then you use a different strategy for those guys.
MAD only works when your opponent doesn't want to get blown up. It worked for the cold war because the Soviets, whilst on the other end of the political ideology, didnt want to get annhilated. This whole "lets give everyone nukes to be fair" is insanity. Fanatics, religious or otherwise, have becoming increasing powerful over the centuries in the destruction that they can cause. We need nukes to stay ahead of the curve - don't confuse "fairness" with equality. I'd rather much rather be "fair" for those that don't want death and destruction than to be equal with those that do.
I'm sorry, but you're talking nonsense. Engineering is the application of [applied] mathematics to create a machine of sorts. The "function in a visually appealing way" is the role of UI designer. The computer can't create or engineer something (even with AI \ fuzzy logic etc) - it can only follow a set of instructions and execute them exactly each time
Or, like the original person[s] who started the companies you speak of, you could get off your backside and make your own living instead of EXPECTING a job to exist for you. The people who are doing well [financially] out of life are typically those that go out and create a living for themselves. That doesnt mean you have to start a new business per sae, but it means being creative about what you do and having the will to create something out of nothing.
You NEED a union as a check on the power of the company/employers.
What a load of bollox. We need unions like we need a hole in the head. Unions have proved to be the downfall of industry. Complaining too much, wanting to much in return for giving too little. If you dont like the demands of the job you entered into then get out and do something else. Whilst that wasnt always possible 100 years ago theres no excuse today. Unions serve not as group bargaining but as group whinging. And if that wasnt enough they put in place absurd demands - like here in California if you're a teacher you have to give part of your salary to union - where the hell is choice in that? Unions are self serving, self indulgent, hypocrits stuck in the 19th century.
Heres a test: take some code somebody has been working on for 4 weeks and move it somewhere to make it look like its been deleted then watch them for a few hours whilst they try to explain to their boss what happened. You expect them to laugh once you produce the 'deleted' code? I mean it should be funny, no lives were lost right?
No, I expect school kids going into Best Buy doing this, not from people who want to be treated as professionals at a trade show. I guess my estimations of peoples thoughtfulness are too high. But on reflection you're right, I guess all companies should now expect to have to lock down every God damn piece of bloody equipment, physically and technologically because, you know, we should be expecting the worst in people.
If they (or you) want a giggle at other peoples expense go and unplug the power cable for a couple of days from their web server and laugh your arses off.
Yes it has its idiosyncracies but we're talking about electing 1 person to lead 300m people. One has to compare it more to electoral dynamics of Europe rather than a single nation within Europe say. As a Brit I can certainly say that the UK has its own peculiar way of doing things but you don't realize it so much if you've grown up with it.
No kidding - 4.x was just horrid. I was coding javascript at that time and our js files were littered with 'if 4.a, else if 4.b, else if 4.c
For video production houses or the big boys in Hollywood who do want uncompressed backup the parents point is pretty valid due to the same reason of storage costs - its only going to become cheaper - just look at storage changes over the last 10 years and exponentialize that (is that a word?) over the next 10, 20 or 50 years. Now factor in video storage demands...we've gone from 720x480 to 1920x1080 in the last 30 years - its taken 10+ years just to get switched over to HD. The red camera is supposed to give us what, 4Kx4K but when is that going to become the norm...20 years time? And doesn't the "who cares about mega-pixel" attitude with digital cameras prove that there is natural limit to rez? The problem with digital photography is organization, not how difficult is it to archive them.
My point is that storage of uncompressed video will become utterly irrelevant in a fairly short order.
Its a bitter pill to swallow to divert funds from saving children today...but unfortuneately it only prolongs the problem. This is why I'm diverting my giving to something like http://www.kiva.org/
Well put. I would also add that multi-party systems tend to disproportionately favor 3rd and 4th place parties too much. This is due to them having the vote that pushes an issue over the 50% mark (or passing grade) and the 2 top parties trying to win their favor. At least with 2 party systems there is typically an outright winner and are wholly responsible for the outcomes of their policies.
Whilst not trying to sound callous this couple took action (and recieved financial help) that then made it the governments business. Now, it does sound like the government are overstepping their mark a bit (though the poster doesn't hightlight any ramifications of being on the list).
Now for my colleagues at work its a completely different story - they want something high end
And as for me, I'm thinking about a Mac Mini as our entertainment console.
what 15 million?...so let me get this straight - CBS are willing to pay a single entertainer 15 million to appear on TV but complain that we reward 300 rocket scientists for their outstanding contributions who have to divvy up about 1/4 of that between them all? Wow, thats a new low.
If we had boxes on tax forms for government tax waste I can assure you Nasa parties would be at the end.
Quite agree. If 1 million is the best that these reporters can come up to spin how Nasa wastes then I'm good with that. And I'd like to hear the rebuttal from Nasa. Besides theres far more problems with tax fraud that I'd rather get cleaned up.
Exactly. What kept the cold war at bay was MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction). Whilst the communists loathed the whole western democratic way of life they were equally keen not to be destroyed themselves. There was at least logic and processes that held up the USSR pressing the button. It seems that the powers that be in Iran (perhaps NKorea) see MAD as almost being a virtue.