What, exactly, is ridiculous? I see nothing ridiculous about SAMSUNG'S behavior in this case, only Apple's. And the judge. The only 'ridiculous' thing Samsung is doing is having the balls to defend itself against a judge that is very clearly in the wrong, and a patent troll (Apple in this case). I'm DEFINITELY buying a Samsung as my next phone after this...
If you're reading everything in the list, why wouldn't you see them? And if you're not reading everything, why do you even have the sources you don't want to read everything from subscribed?
I don't think I have a single feed that I read EVERY story from. I skim the headlines and decide which ones I want to read and which I don't. What I don't want is the Ben Heck episode that was posted this morning to be buried under the 20 slashdot posts I read at work; or a mountain of hack-a-day and boing boing posts that I don't feel like reading today. Most of my feeds post too often to read or even look at ALL of the articles posted, which is why I love iGoogle -- I get the latest 3-9 headlines from every source, all on one page, and I can expand and read the ones that look interesting, then click through if I want to read more. Sure, I probably miss some things, but I figure if they're important I'll see them elsewhere. And with the stories I'm really interested in I get to see different coverage from different sources with different biases and focuses. I have 22 feeds on my Google homepage, and over a hundred combined decent length articles posted every day. I don't have time to read EVERYTHING.
Yea, I was considering Google Reader, since Google is dropping the homepage in a little while. My problem though is that, last time I checked (IIRC), it didn't sort things by what feed they came from. It was all just one big mass of posts in chronological order -- or I think you could select feeds to view them individually, but only one at a time.
I want to be able to see each feed, separated, simultaneously. The problem is that I have some feeds that only update once every month or two, and might take me a week to get around to 'reading' (for example, I watch 'The Ben Heck Show' and have a feed for his new episodes.) So it's a waste of my time if I have to click through each one of them to see if they've updated recently, but if they come into the same space with every other item I probably won't even see them. And if I do I'll lose them before I get around to checking it out. But I also don't want to just check them once a week or so -- that's why I use RSS in the first place. (Other things, like YouTube, I just check when I'm bored)
Really? I use it all the time. Not with a dedicated RSS reader (I don't know anyone who uses those either, they're all terrible) but with Google Homepage (iGoogle). Hell, even my _mother_ does that -- and she's not the tech-savvy mother type either. Couldn't even set up her email on her iPad without my help.
How do you get news if you don't use RSS? Or do you only read one or two sites? Christ I'd need an extra two or three hours per day if I was checking every site I read individually for anything interesting...
suppose people are fanning forbes - and these are the people it should be shown anyways to - shouldn't they get to see forbes posts because they're already subscribed to it?
They should, but they don't. Not anymore anyway. I've personally verified that -- it's not about my feed being too full, there are times when nothing hits my feed for an hour or two even though when I actually go to pages I'm subscribed to, they're making posts during the time. I believe it's a recent change where Facebook only shows the most popular posts from a page you subscribe to unless they pay to have others promoted.
Yea, I noticed several years ago, back when I used to play WoW and my computer could barely handle, that it would run faster in Linux on Wine with OpenGL than it would on Windows XP. I mean I'm talking ~5fps on windows to ~15fps with better graphics on Linux -- not really playable on Windows, barely playable on Linux.
I was thinking the same, though I would advise regular khakis over cargo pants for work. Just as comfortable (a bit more in my opinion) but they look a hell of a lot nicer. If you need extra space for tools, put 'em on your belt. Of course, that certainly depends on the company as well. If it's all internal work and you aren't going to be meeting any high-level managers, cargo pants would probably be fine. But yea, keep a shirt and possibly tie handy in case they're needed. And probably better pants if you're wearing cargo pants, though that's a lot harder to change.
And your source for that claim is...? Not that the summary posted here is any better. In the article linked it never says what specifically the arrested teen tweeted. It only has a listing of remarks that SOME USERS tweeted.
Here in the US I learned quite a bit of that in highschool. Nothing in-depth, as you said, but the general concepts were certainly mentioned at least.
And maybe you could scrap the higher levels of math if really necessary -- in my school system, pretty much everyone made it to "PDM" -- Pre-calculus and discrete math. The more math-adept students got one or two years of Calculus. But Algebra? Shit, that was 6th or 7th grade. 10-12 years old. You can't just not know algebra, it's pretty essential.
If you're working at McDonalds and need to figure out how much change to give someone -- you need algebra. What's the change on a $5.38 meal if they paid with a $10 bill -- that's algebra. 5.38 + X = 10. Perhaps it is more difficult to grasp than it should be because of the way it is taught, but I think there are very few people in this world who do not use algebra on a daily basis. This isn't calculus. It's basic math. In my school system, algebra was 6th or 7th grade.
I agree with the parent. If you were giving money to hardcore racists every time you purchased a transistor...then yea, I would have a problem with them. Same way I have a problem with people supporting the tyrannical organization that is the IOC. In order to host the Olympics, the host country must pass laws that essentially abolosh all civil rights in any cases where the Olympics are involved. You no longer have any right to free speech (assuming you did before they came...,) you are assumed guilty until proven innocent of any IP violations, they cause forced evictions, violate safety laws for the workers building the Olympic facilities...by supporting the Olympics you are supporting the IOC, and the IOC is just generally a horrible organization.
You got that far? I gave up on Ubuntu after I first couldn't get the damn thing to install. Tried again a few versions later and I couldn't get my wifi working without installing ndiswrapper from source. Same wifi card that worked out of the box on most other distros. Hell it was easier to get working on _Arch_ than Ubuntu!
For newbies, I cannot recommend Mandriva more highly. You'll _never_ need the command line. After that it's just a matter of finding a window manager that looks enough like Windows. I would say the default KDE would be fine, but if it really must be identical you may need to try something else. Or just check out some themes.
People tend to consider threats like this entirely theoretical and something that will never ever actually happen -- until it does. I think there's definitely some value is showing just how easy these things are.
98% on-time delivery, $10+ billion annual revenue, was still growing and giving raises here in the US even in the worst part of the recession, and while I can't mention some of our clients, they do include EA, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, and several other fortune 500s...so they must be doing something right.
And I mean you do have to actually be capable of doing the job -- I'm not saying they're going to throw someone who's never seen a programming language straight into a developer position. But they train you, and they provide opportunities for you to train yourself. Get the certifications you need, they'll reimburse you, and then they'll put you where you want to be. It's not going to be easy for someone who's never seen object oriented programming to get that Java developer position, they might not start out there, but if you put a bit of effort into it you can get there.
They were giving you 35/35 for $40/month? I'm unbundled, but when I was looking (just over a week ago, in RI) they had two packages to offer -- 15/5 for $60/month (yeah, I can get cable cheaper, faster, and without a contract) or 50/25 for $75/month (the one I went with.) From what I've seen though it seems their service and pricing varies wildly by location...probably based on the competition.
I've done WoW and netflix on a 6mbps connection and still had room for a slow torrent...my 50/25 seems pretty much impossible to saturate at this point.
...And people who want much slower but conventional broadband can get it for free if they pay a $300 connection fee.
You only pay if you want gigabit speeds. And it's the same price as a 50/25 FiOS connection, so that seems pretty fair to me. Of course, even my 50/25 FiOS is far faster than what most servers seem able to deliver, so it's unlikely to make much difference unless you're planning to host a reasonably heavy server...
As so many others have already pointed out, doing anything that you've suggested is begging to be on the losing end of a lawsuit. Or a media circus. Or both.
You know how real companies deal with this? Anyone complains, you lose your job. It's that simple.
Tata Consultancy Services. They're definitely hiring, across the country (of the people recruited with me we had people going to clients in RI, NJ, TX, CA, OH, and I think a few other states.) They were going so far as to hire electrical engineers for software development positions...but then again, that was for recent college grads. Of the three people who just joined my client site though, one of three was a lateral hire who'd been working in automotive software development. This client is in the retail division. He got assigned as a business analyst. Everything I've seen indicates that they care a hell of a lot more about what you want to do and where you want to do it than what your actual experience is.
There's plenty of decent employers out there. There's a reason I left things like 'Treasurer, Young Democratic Socialists' on my resume when I was at my college career fair -- if they didn't want to hire me for it, I didn't want to work for them. And you know what? When I got around to companies I actually would want to work for...those things helped. They cared about leadership experience more than they cared about what it was with. Now I'm consulting for a fortune 500, good salary, good benefits, good working conditions. And I believe they're thousands short of their hiring goals for this year, so there's plenty of room for others...
There are two reasons people can't find jobs in IT -- either they put all their time and effort to try to land that job with Microsoft, Google, Intel...and never look anywhere else...or they live out in the middle of nowhere and refuse to relocate. There's a HUGE deficit of IT workers in this country (tens of thousands of unfilled vacancies every year) -- you have plenty of choice in who you work for.
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What, exactly, is ridiculous? I see nothing ridiculous about SAMSUNG'S behavior in this case, only Apple's. And the judge. The only 'ridiculous' thing Samsung is doing is having the balls to defend itself against a judge that is very clearly in the wrong, and a patent troll (Apple in this case). I'm DEFINITELY buying a Samsung as my next phone after this...
Really? I never noticed any missing -- then again, I had the graphics settings as low as possible just to get the damn thing to run.
If you're reading everything in the list, why wouldn't you see them? And if you're not reading everything, why do you even have the sources you don't want to read everything from subscribed?
I don't think I have a single feed that I read EVERY story from. I skim the headlines and decide which ones I want to read and which I don't. What I don't want is the Ben Heck episode that was posted this morning to be buried under the 20 slashdot posts I read at work; or a mountain of hack-a-day and boing boing posts that I don't feel like reading today. Most of my feeds post too often to read or even look at ALL of the articles posted, which is why I love iGoogle -- I get the latest 3-9 headlines from every source, all on one page, and I can expand and read the ones that look interesting, then click through if I want to read more. Sure, I probably miss some things, but I figure if they're important I'll see them elsewhere. And with the stories I'm really interested in I get to see different coverage from different sources with different biases and focuses. I have 22 feeds on my Google homepage, and over a hundred combined decent length articles posted every day. I don't have time to read EVERYTHING.
Yea, I was considering Google Reader, since Google is dropping the homepage in a little while. My problem though is that, last time I checked (IIRC), it didn't sort things by what feed they came from. It was all just one big mass of posts in chronological order -- or I think you could select feeds to view them individually, but only one at a time.
I want to be able to see each feed, separated, simultaneously. The problem is that I have some feeds that only update once every month or two, and might take me a week to get around to 'reading' (for example, I watch 'The Ben Heck Show' and have a feed for his new episodes.) So it's a waste of my time if I have to click through each one of them to see if they've updated recently, but if they come into the same space with every other item I probably won't even see them. And if I do I'll lose them before I get around to checking it out. But I also don't want to just check them once a week or so -- that's why I use RSS in the first place. (Other things, like YouTube, I just check when I'm bored)
Really? I use it all the time. Not with a dedicated RSS reader (I don't know anyone who uses those either, they're all terrible) but with Google Homepage (iGoogle). Hell, even my _mother_ does that -- and she's not the tech-savvy mother type either. Couldn't even set up her email on her iPad without my help.
How do you get news if you don't use RSS? Or do you only read one or two sites? Christ I'd need an extra two or three hours per day if I was checking every site I read individually for anything interesting...
suppose people are fanning forbes - and these are the people it should be shown anyways to - shouldn't they get to see forbes posts because they're already subscribed to it?
They should, but they don't. Not anymore anyway. I've personally verified that -- it's not about my feed being too full, there are times when nothing hits my feed for an hour or two even though when I actually go to pages I'm subscribed to, they're making posts during the time. I believe it's a recent change where Facebook only shows the most popular posts from a page you subscribe to unless they pay to have others promoted.
Or you could look at it as another labor-intensive job that humans don't have to do anymore. Unless they really want to.
Yea, I noticed several years ago, back when I used to play WoW and my computer could barely handle, that it would run faster in Linux on Wine with OpenGL than it would on Windows XP. I mean I'm talking ~5fps on windows to ~15fps with better graphics on Linux -- not really playable on Windows, barely playable on Linux.
Should a defendant have to pay the plaintiff's attorney's fees if the defendant loses?
Yes, under current law that's pretty much what happens.
I was thinking the same, though I would advise regular khakis over cargo pants for work. Just as comfortable (a bit more in my opinion) but they look a hell of a lot nicer. If you need extra space for tools, put 'em on your belt. Of course, that certainly depends on the company as well. If it's all internal work and you aren't going to be meeting any high-level managers, cargo pants would probably be fine. But yea, keep a shirt and possibly tie handy in case they're needed. And probably better pants if you're wearing cargo pants, though that's a lot harder to change.
And your source for that claim is...? Not that the summary posted here is any better. In the article linked it never says what specifically the arrested teen tweeted. It only has a listing of remarks that SOME USERS tweeted.
Here in the US I learned quite a bit of that in highschool. Nothing in-depth, as you said, but the general concepts were certainly mentioned at least.
And maybe you could scrap the higher levels of math if really necessary -- in my school system, pretty much everyone made it to "PDM" -- Pre-calculus and discrete math. The more math-adept students got one or two years of Calculus. But Algebra? Shit, that was 6th or 7th grade. 10-12 years old. You can't just not know algebra, it's pretty essential.
If you're working at McDonalds and need to figure out how much change to give someone -- you need algebra. What's the change on a $5.38 meal if they paid with a $10 bill -- that's algebra. 5.38 + X = 10. Perhaps it is more difficult to grasp than it should be because of the way it is taught, but I think there are very few people in this world who do not use algebra on a daily basis. This isn't calculus. It's basic math. In my school system, algebra was 6th or 7th grade.
I agree with the parent. If you were giving money to hardcore racists every time you purchased a transistor...then yea, I would have a problem with them. Same way I have a problem with people supporting the tyrannical organization that is the IOC. In order to host the Olympics, the host country must pass laws that essentially abolosh all civil rights in any cases where the Olympics are involved. You no longer have any right to free speech (assuming you did before they came...,) you are assumed guilty until proven innocent of any IP violations, they cause forced evictions, violate safety laws for the workers building the Olympic facilities...by supporting the Olympics you are supporting the IOC, and the IOC is just generally a horrible organization.
See:
http://www.vice.com/rule-britannia/the-vice-guide-to-the-olympics-part-1
http://www.techdirt.com/search.php?cx=partner-pub-4050006937094082%3Acx0qff-dnm1&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Olympics
You got that far? I gave up on Ubuntu after I first couldn't get the damn thing to install. Tried again a few versions later and I couldn't get my wifi working without installing ndiswrapper from source. Same wifi card that worked out of the box on most other distros. Hell it was easier to get working on _Arch_ than Ubuntu!
For newbies, I cannot recommend Mandriva more highly. You'll _never_ need the command line. After that it's just a matter of finding a window manager that looks enough like Windows. I would say the default KDE would be fine, but if it really must be identical you may need to try something else. Or just check out some themes.
People tend to consider threats like this entirely theoretical and something that will never ever actually happen -- until it does. I think there's definitely some value is showing just how easy these things are.
98% on-time delivery, $10+ billion annual revenue, was still growing and giving raises here in the US even in the worst part of the recession, and while I can't mention some of our clients, they do include EA, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, and several other fortune 500s...so they must be doing something right.
And I mean you do have to actually be capable of doing the job -- I'm not saying they're going to throw someone who's never seen a programming language straight into a developer position. But they train you, and they provide opportunities for you to train yourself. Get the certifications you need, they'll reimburse you, and then they'll put you where you want to be. It's not going to be easy for someone who's never seen object oriented programming to get that Java developer position, they might not start out there, but if you put a bit of effort into it you can get there.
They were giving you 35/35 for $40/month? I'm unbundled, but when I was looking (just over a week ago, in RI) they had two packages to offer -- 15/5 for $60/month (yeah, I can get cable cheaper, faster, and without a contract) or 50/25 for $75/month (the one I went with.) From what I've seen though it seems their service and pricing varies wildly by location...probably based on the competition.
$75/mo gets me 50/25 in RI (FiOS)...and it actually tests higher, at 56/28
I've done WoW and netflix on a 6mbps connection and still had room for a slow torrent...my 50/25 seems pretty much impossible to saturate at this point.
From the article:
...And people who want much slower but conventional broadband can get it for free if they pay a $300 connection fee.
You only pay if you want gigabit speeds. And it's the same price as a 50/25 FiOS connection, so that seems pretty fair to me. Of course, even my 50/25 FiOS is far faster than what most servers seem able to deliver, so it's unlikely to make much difference unless you're planning to host a reasonably heavy server...
As so many others have already pointed out, doing anything that you've suggested is begging to be on the losing end of a lawsuit. Or a media circus. Or both.
You know how real companies deal with this? Anyone complains, you lose your job. It's that simple.
Tata Consultancy Services. They're definitely hiring, across the country (of the people recruited with me we had people going to clients in RI, NJ, TX, CA, OH, and I think a few other states.) They were going so far as to hire electrical engineers for software development positions...but then again, that was for recent college grads. Of the three people who just joined my client site though, one of three was a lateral hire who'd been working in automotive software development. This client is in the retail division. He got assigned as a business analyst. Everything I've seen indicates that they care a hell of a lot more about what you want to do and where you want to do it than what your actual experience is.
There's plenty of decent employers out there. There's a reason I left things like 'Treasurer, Young Democratic Socialists' on my resume when I was at my college career fair -- if they didn't want to hire me for it, I didn't want to work for them. And you know what? When I got around to companies I actually would want to work for...those things helped. They cared about leadership experience more than they cared about what it was with. Now I'm consulting for a fortune 500, good salary, good benefits, good working conditions. And I believe they're thousands short of their hiring goals for this year, so there's plenty of room for others...
There are two reasons people can't find jobs in IT -- either they put all their time and effort to try to land that job with Microsoft, Google, Intel...and never look anywhere else...or they live out in the middle of nowhere and refuse to relocate. There's a HUGE deficit of IT workers in this country (tens of thousands of unfilled vacancies every year) -- you have plenty of choice in who you work for.
Or you could just say 'No'. So long as people are willing (if not eager) to be tied to work 24/7, companies will be happy to allow them to be.
That would be the 'cultural' part of "American political and cultural systems"...