But for the average Joe who just uses their computer to check a few websites and send an email or two, a tablet fits their needs nicely.
That is still what the vast majority of people do at home with their computer (with tiny bit of picture and video, but the tablet handle the basic needs nicely). So it may not replace the desktop for professional / power user needs, but it will replace it for the people that are currently using a desktop as an appliance.
That can be good for slashdot people thought. We are always complaining about how people don't learn and don't want to know. Soon they won't use computer at all and we can retire from our "customer support for friends and family" position.
But if someone actually is less open to relocation, and hasn't managed to keep up with newer technologies, and you reject them for those reasons, then it isn't age discrimination.
Indeed. I would also challenge the view that being open to relocation and high tech resume is obviously better for all tech job. You really only want to relocate people with a lot of experience (why bother to pay the cost of relocation for people you can fire and hire easily ?) - people with lot of experience that are still open to relocation are by definition also open to change work or actually relocate. If you need people that stick around (like if you don't like to show new faces to your client every year), flexible to move at any time is not necessarily something you would like to pay for. Also people with high tech resume and experience will require to work on new project on a regular basis (like every 2 years) or they will leave the company. Again, not something that suit every projects...
Nothing to do with capitalism - just good old fashioned geopolitics. Capitalism has actually improved a (little) bit the situation by interconnecting all the (richest) nations in such a way that you can no longer solve all your problems by nuking the country you don't like.
The poster? Just that it doesn't show your details on the page doesn't mean it makes you invulnerable to prosecution if you break the law.
Yet, to post on most website, including Slashdot, you need to relinquish any rights you have on what you said. It seems to be that if you are responsible for the negative consequences of what you post, you should retain some modicum control on it.
For example imagine you are drunk and post something offensive on slashdot - you cannot go back and delete it before it offends more people. If slashdot then randomly select your comment and use it as a quote, you also need to assume responsibility for that. And if in 5 years someone digs up your comment, you are still responsible for it.
That's not a problem, especially not on slashdot, when you understand what you are doing. Not sure it is clear to the masses though.
Mostly because at least in the US they're subservient to the carriers who don't want you to do as you wish, but rather want you to do as they wish and use your device as little as possible, pay as much as possible, and throw it away in favor of a new device and a new contract after 2 years are up.
No they won't because they want to sell a shitload of handsets and that means that they focus their effort on the most juicy target. Advanced support for geek has an extremely limited return on investment.
The whole thing is a still just clever marketing based on a big idiotic appeal to nature fallacy that serves no purpose other than to separate the gullible and the scientifically illiterate from their money
Creative business literate food marketer like to plaster their food with as many misleading labels as a lawyer could defend in court, so the organic label is one good way to avoid eating food genetically modified or grown using hormone or antibiotics. In Europe at least, that is quite important, even to scientifically literate people.
Off topic, but that makes you think twice about privatisation of everything and the effect of small government could have on individual liberty. If the police is using contractors like the army does for example, does that mean they can use entrapment ? Chilly sunday, I think I'll go back to bed.
Metrics are important even when you do different thing - they can give the team useful insight with what is happening on the project. Almost all projects I worked on collected some metrics automatically and they get reviewed from time to time, generally spontaneously by members of the team. Metric like "Leader board" type stuff in Hudson are often used for fun.
Now, if you use the metric for the team evaluation, the team will naturally work to optimize them, as if the metrics were just another very important requirement. Since as you said, you never repeat yourself, good luck to find a set of metrics whose optimisation is not detrimental to the project.
Too bad the 1%ers don't read history or they'd be a hell of a lot more scared than you are.
They can read history. History tells you that you can oppress people for hundreds of year at a time. And even when the revolution happens, some falls but they still have a good chance of getting away with it.
What matters to the 1% is not that revolution will happen, it is when. Since in this case, we are talking about banker, that is just business as usual: you fold seconds before the bubble burst, not years before, not after.
So, free speech but in small dose only ? The irony of a country where every citizen has the right to carry a weapon in order to fight the government...
I guess soon they will also add "universe, alternate-universe, and other dimensions including virtual or imaginary, in perpetuity since the beginning of time, in all form possible for all future and past meanings of the current sentence."
So many things wrong with this idea. I'd hate for my to change a little and all of a sudden I'm locked out.
Why do people assume that "being resilient to mood change" is not part of the acceptance criteria of the solution... DARPA wants a solution to replace password that works in practice, not just pick a random idea from a brainstorming session.
Climate science is akin to reverse engineer google ranking system by running 1 query a year on a different subject each time and have a few historical data of what some user remember to have run some time in the past. That is a true science, with model that only reflect the quality of the data we currently have, i.e. with lot of interpretation.
Would you need a structural science model and impact study before you stop your kid digging under the house when you start seeing cracks in the wall or feel the vibration ? Would you have an open debate and reason the denier before taking actions ? Apparently, as a species, we need a political circus to decide on common sense.
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I guess that the point that the GP is making is that the rest of the world has understood that big war confrontation with the US is not winnable and therefore have chosen other roads, as illustrated by the complete lack of efficiency the US have against the current crop of terrorist.
So indeed, the army should not stand still, keeping the lead in big war toys is important as a reminder that nobody should try the US, but even more important is preparing to fight against the other vectors of attack.
Put in other words, had the F35 been available, would that have helped/shortened/made cheaper/prevented the last decade of continuous conflict the US has been into ? Would that have made Iran, North Korea more wary ? Would it have improved US position against China ? If not, maybe taxpayer money should better be invested in tech that does.
Milking the death. Everytime there is somebody famous (as in fox news famous, not lisp inventor famous) we need to get through the same repetitive shit. At least we won't have to suffer post death album.
Considering that the goal of a patent is to protect invention in exchange of making it public, it should not be permitted to patent something that the public can already reproduce without looking at its implementation details. That is the reason why you patent an actual implementation of a problem, not the effect. (you cannot hide the effect and the effect is your product, so you always have the incentive to create new effect, eveb without patent protection)
Of course the line between effect and implementation can be blurry, but in this case, you should only be able to patent a very narrow API for a "Sliding unlock on an iOS device" (the technical feat) and not "Sliding unlock on a phone" (which is in reality the effect).
cross-license are even worse. Big player on the market team up together and can prevent any unexpected newcomer. That is part of the reason we have the current war in the mobile sector. It all started when a disruptive (and aggressive) new player entered the market and didn't to want to pay its ticket in the club.
There is no question that it is a progress for humanity, and human society will adapt. The question is how miserable things will be during the transition. If people cannot adapt at the same rate that technology change ( after all, human does not change - at advanced level of education, it takes years of training to move to another field ) I would not mind society to pace itself rather than experiencing an episode of war, mass poverty, civil unrest, bloody revolution.
"You're the product, not the customer." basically says that an ad funded company is expected to act as evilly as possible, just because of the way it's funded.
Actually, it means exactly the opposite. Google does everything to provide better product to their client. That means, not annoying people, giving them the ads they are most likely to click on, giving them tons of excellent free tools so that they stay within the Google network and therefore helps Google getting the best value for its ads placements. However, as you said,...
The reality is that sometimes there are conflicts of interest
So that is important to remember and why the meme is somewhat useful.
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Clearly it doesn't actually affect the quality or the usability of the language - JS seems to be used just fine.
That is a bit ironic talking about a language designed to replace JS because Google thinks JS is "unsalvageable".
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But for the average Joe who just uses their computer to check a few websites and send an email or two, a tablet fits their needs nicely.
That is still what the vast majority of people do at home with their computer (with tiny bit of picture and video, but the tablet handle the basic needs nicely). So it may not replace the desktop for professional / power user needs, but it will replace it for the people that are currently using a desktop as an appliance.
That can be good for slashdot people thought. We are always complaining about how people don't learn and don't want to know. Soon they won't use computer at all and we can retire from our "customer support for friends and family" position.
You are hard against the lawyers, they managed to get ticketmaster to remove the usual "this offer cannot be combined with any other offer". /sarcasm
But if someone actually is less open to relocation, and hasn't managed to keep up with newer technologies, and you reject them for those reasons, then it isn't age discrimination.
Indeed. I would also challenge the view that being open to relocation and high tech resume is obviously better for all tech job. You really only want to relocate people with a lot of experience (why bother to pay the cost of relocation for people you can fire and hire easily ?) - people with lot of experience that are still open to relocation are by definition also open to change work or actually relocate. If you need people that stick around (like if you don't like to show new faces to your client every year), flexible to move at any time is not necessarily something you would like to pay for. Also people with high tech resume and experience will require to work on new project on a regular basis (like every 2 years) or they will leave the company. Again, not something that suit every projects ...
Nothing to do with capitalism - just good old fashioned geopolitics. Capitalism has actually improved a (little) bit the situation by interconnecting all the (richest) nations in such a way that you can no longer solve all your problems by nuking the country you don't like.
The poster? Just that it doesn't show your details on the page doesn't mean it makes you invulnerable to prosecution if you break the law.
Yet, to post on most website, including Slashdot, you need to relinquish any rights you have on what you said. It seems to be that if you are responsible for the negative consequences of what you post, you should retain some modicum control on it.
For example imagine you are drunk and post something offensive on slashdot - you cannot go back and delete it before it offends more people. If slashdot then randomly select your comment and use it as a quote, you also need to assume responsibility for that. And if in 5 years someone digs up your comment, you are still responsible for it.
That's not a problem, especially not on slashdot, when you understand what you are doing. Not sure it is clear to the masses though.
May not be as good as you imagine: no tactile feedback.
Mostly because at least in the US they're subservient to the carriers who don't want you to do as you wish, but rather want you to do as they wish and use your device as little as possible, pay as much as possible, and throw it away in favor of a new device and a new contract after 2 years are up.
No they won't because they want to sell a shitload of handsets and that means that they focus their effort on the most juicy target. Advanced support for geek has an extremely limited return on investment.
The whole thing is a still just clever marketing based on a big idiotic appeal to nature fallacy that serves no purpose other than to separate the gullible and the scientifically illiterate from their money
Creative business literate food marketer like to plaster their food with as many misleading labels as a lawyer could defend in court, so the organic label is one good way to avoid eating food genetically modified or grown using hormone or antibiotics. In Europe at least, that is quite important, even to scientifically literate people.
It's not a defense if a private company does it.
Off topic, but that makes you think twice about privatisation of everything and the effect of small government could have on individual liberty. If the police is using contractors like the army does for example, does that mean they can use entrapment ? Chilly sunday, I think I'll go back to bed.
Metrics are important even when you do different thing - they can give the team useful insight with what is happening on the project. Almost all projects I worked on collected some metrics automatically and they get reviewed from time to time, generally spontaneously by members of the team. Metric like "Leader board" type stuff in Hudson are often used for fun.
Now, if you use the metric for the team evaluation, the team will naturally work to optimize them, as if the metrics were just another very important requirement. Since as you said, you never repeat yourself, good luck to find a set of metrics whose optimisation is not detrimental to the project.
Too bad the 1%ers don't read history or they'd be a hell of a lot more scared than you are.
They can read history. History tells you that you can oppress people for hundreds of year at a time. And even when the revolution happens, some falls but they still have a good chance of getting away with it.
What matters to the 1% is not that revolution will happen, it is when. Since in this case, we are talking about banker, that is just business as usual: you fold seconds before the bubble burst, not years before, not after.
So, free speech but in small dose only ? The irony of a country where every citizen has the right to carry a weapon in order to fight the government ...
I guess soon they will also add "universe, alternate-universe, and other dimensions including virtual or imaginary, in perpetuity since the beginning of time, in all form possible for all future and past meanings of the current sentence."
So many things wrong with this idea. I'd hate for my to change a little and all of a sudden I'm locked out.
Why do people assume that "being resilient to mood change" is not part of the acceptance criteria of the solution ... DARPA wants a solution to replace password that works in practice, not just pick a random idea from a brainstorming session.
Climate science is akin to reverse engineer google ranking system by running 1 query a year on a different subject each time and have a few historical data of what some user remember to have run some time in the past. That is a true science, with model that only reflect the quality of the data we currently have, i.e. with lot of interpretation.
Would you need a structural science model and impact study before you stop your kid digging under the house when you start seeing cracks in the wall or feel the vibration ? Would you have an open debate and reason the denier before taking actions ? Apparently, as a species, we need a political circus to decide on common sense.
I guess that the point that the GP is making is that the rest of the world has understood that big war confrontation with the US is not winnable and therefore have chosen other roads, as illustrated by the complete lack of efficiency the US have against the current crop of terrorist.
So indeed, the army should not stand still, keeping the lead in big war toys is important as a reminder that nobody should try the US, but even more important is preparing to fight against the other vectors of attack.
Put in other words, had the F35 been available, would that have helped/shortened/made cheaper/prevented the last decade of continuous conflict the US has been into ? Would that have made Iran, North Korea more wary ? Would it have improved US position against China ? If not, maybe taxpayer money should better be invested in tech that does.
At least tell me you are in germany, so that it is not entirely offtopic ?
Milking the death. Everytime there is somebody famous (as in fox news famous, not lisp inventor famous) we need to get through the same repetitive shit. At least we won't have to suffer post death album.
Graphene is just the new Carbon Nanotube. The new silver bullet to get a grant.
Considering that the goal of a patent is to protect invention in exchange of making it public, it should not be permitted to patent something that the public can already reproduce without looking at its implementation details. That is the reason why you patent an actual implementation of a problem, not the effect. (you cannot hide the effect and the effect is your product, so you always have the incentive to create new effect, eveb without patent protection)
Of course the line between effect and implementation can be blurry, but in this case, you should only be able to patent a very narrow API for a "Sliding unlock on an iOS device" (the technical feat) and not "Sliding unlock on a phone" (which is in reality the effect).
cross-license are even worse. Big player on the market team up together and can prevent any unexpected newcomer. That is part of the reason we have the current war in the mobile sector. It all started when a disruptive (and aggressive) new player entered the market and didn't to want to pay its ticket in the club.
There is no question that it is a progress for humanity, and human society will adapt. The question is how miserable things will be during the transition. If people cannot adapt at the same rate that technology change ( after all, human does not change - at advanced level of education, it takes years of training to move to another field ) I would not mind society to pace itself rather than experiencing an episode of war, mass poverty, civil unrest, bloody revolution.
that's a problem with the economic system, not the automation.
Problem solved, well done. Are you a middle manager by any chance ?
"You're the product, not the customer." basically says that an ad funded company is expected to act as evilly as possible, just because of the way it's funded.
Actually, it means exactly the opposite. Google does everything to provide better product to their client. That means, not annoying people, giving them the ads they are most likely to click on, giving them tons of excellent free tools so that they stay within the Google network and therefore helps Google getting the best value for its ads placements. However, as you said, ...
The reality is that sometimes there are conflicts of interest
So that is important to remember and why the meme is somewhat useful.
Clearly it doesn't actually affect the quality or the usability of the language - JS seems to be used just fine.
That is a bit ironic talking about a language designed to replace JS because Google thinks JS is "unsalvageable".