Sometimes I think the BS B.S. requirements are just to thin the applicant pool a little. You might miss out on some quality people, but it gives you an early short list. It's not feasible to interview every single person, especially for some low-level job. There's always some arbitrary line in the sand used to cull the pack. Why should a non-necessary degree requirement be any different than tossing any resume that has some minor grammatical error?
If you or anyone else has a better system, I'd love to hear it. After seeing the results of the current hiring policy, anything would be better.
Also saying that cats are anti-social isn't terribly true either. Cats can function more independently than many animals, but they're fairly social creatures. I'm taking care of my parents' cat while they're on vacation and that thing craves human attention as much as any dog I've seen. Wikipedia has some good information on the social behavior of cats.
There are several measures of intelligence. Cats are probably smarter than dogs in some capacities just as dogs may be considered more intelligent in others.
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It's mostly just evolution. Being able to recognize a friend (or enemy for that matter) in a busy environment is much more valuable than being able to do three digit multiplication from an evolutionary perspective. If we train people for it they're a lot better than the average person, but there's not much of a need for the ability to do it manually since there are calculators. If nature had selected on doing multiple digit math calculations instead of escaping predators and forming communities to better survive, our brains would be wired differently over the long run.
No, it just means that they probably don't have support for iTunes LP in previous versions of iTunes. I believe that most of it is done using HTML and CSS, so unless the content it plays is DRM-encumbered, there's no reason that some one else can't write software to play it back. Apple has posted a development guide, templates, and other information regarding the format.
Apple only has around 70% of the portable media player market and that will probably shrink as more consumers move away from the iPod and towards the iPhone. There are plenty of other small players in that market and with most music stores being DRM-free, there's no easy way to lock customers in to one environment. I know a few people who own iPods but get music through Amazon. Or people who buy music through iTunes for a nom-Apple device.
There are plenty of operating systems: Windows, OS X, and dozens of *nix flavors. OS X doesn't even have double digit marketshare so there's no monopoly in that space. Linux has gone from obscure and unusable for non-technical people to a viable OS that some hardware vendors offer as a option when buying a machine, so any oligopoly that may exist is quickly eroding. It would also be quite absurd to say that the two are in collusion as well.
Apple also seems to think the current general computing market will go away or significantly change shape over the next decade. It wouldn't surprise me if most people ten years from now use iPad-like devices for most of their computing needs. Serious computational work could be done by large server farms for cheap and developers or power users will be the only people who need a PC with large amounts of local computational power. The only market where there's even a hint of an oligopoly is going to radically change over the next decade.
The thing that pisses me off most about Go is having the lexer manage semicolons. Essentially it forces a style of coding that I dislike. I prefer to open braces on the following line as it makes it easier for me to read the program. It has some nice features that I like, but forcing a coding style like that is annoying.
Let's just cut to the chase and ban people from airplanes. Every single terrorist plot involving hijacking or detonating an explosive aboard an airplane involved at least one person. By completely banning people from flights, it will make air travel completely safe. This has the added benefit of allowing the TSA enough time to give everyone a full-cavity search since they no longer have to worry about being able to depart on time. After all, you never know where those terrorists might hide their explosives. Of course to do all of this in a timely manner, we'll need to double the number of TSA security personnel, but it's probably worth the extra hundred dollars just to know that the flight you can't take is completely safe from terrorists. Can't put a price on piece of mind after all.
Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the fucking vanguard of cell data in this country. The AT&T iPhone was the phone to own. Then the other guy came out with a 3G phone and service plan. Were we scared? Hell, no. Because we hit back with a little thing called the 3GS. That's three g's and an s. For something-or-other. But you know what happened next? Shut up, I'm telling you what happened—the bastards went to four g's. Now we're standing around with our cocks in our hands, selling three g's and an s. Defunct antenna or no, suddenly we're the chumps. Well, fuck it. We're going to five g's.
Sure, we could go to four g's next, like the competition. That seems like the logical thing to do. After all, three worked out pretty well, and four is the next number after three. So let's play it safe. Let's get a new iPhone and call it the 3GSTurbo. Why innovate when we can follow? Oh, I know why: Because we're a business, that's why!
You think it's crazy? It is crazy. But I don't give a shit. From now on, we're the ones who leave our customers using^W^W^W^W have the EDGE in the multi-g game. Are they the best a man can get? Fuck, no. AT&T is the best a man can get.
What part of this don't you understand? If two g's is good, and three g'sis better, obviously five g's would make us the best fucking cell network that ever existed. Comprende? We didn't claw our way to the top of the cellular provider game by clinging to the two-g industry standard. We got here by taking chances. Well, five g's is the biggest chance of all.
I'm doing graduate research involving monitoring students in computer science labs. Today the instructor asked how many students were planning to vote. Around 15% raised their hands. At least that many had a stunned look in their eyes as though they didn't even realize it was election day.
Young people may be more likely to own only cell-phones and tend to be much more progressive, but it seems as though they may be a lot less likely to vote. Most of them probably live within a few blocks of where they can vote and it's a nice day out so there's not much of an excuse.
I follow Silver's site as he often writes a lot about the statistics behind his model, which I usually find more interesting than the results or political commentary, but if these observations are true, why the hell aren't they built into his model? If these effects actually exist and skew polling results, why haven't they already been taken into consideration? Also, what effects exist that skew the results in the other direction and what evidence supports them?
This article feels sloppy, especially when compared to the usual high quality from fivethirtyeight. Let's wait another twelve hours and then we'll have a pretty good idea about the actual outcome and can start speculating what might have caused it to deviate from the expected results so that the prediction model can be adjusted accordingly.
I don't think it's part of the official achievements but feel free to mark it off on your score card. Good luck getting the coveted +5 Insightful post containing a goatse link though. That one's almost impossible.
Just out of curiosity, what kind of software is it that you would want to use?
I only ask this because a while back Apple said that they had already paid out $1 billion to developers. Considering that not all apps cost money and that this doesn't include data from Android phones, which have (or will in the near future) similar numbers of sales, it would appear as though there is a lot of software that people want to use.
Doesn't matter who you are or what you like, there's going to be a few people in the group that end up making the rest look bad. Look no further than the usual dozens of posts in stories such as this one that are either blatant Apple ass-kissing, or anti-Apple flame that usually isn't even related to the issue at hand.
Some of us like our Macs (or other Apple products) but get annoyed by the people who criticize anyone who uses anything else. Why the hell some people care so much about what kinds of computer devices other people use is beyond me.
I'd say harassment if he continued the comments, but just saying it once shouldn't qualify. Otherwise simply giving someone a piece of your mind would be illegal. Doing so through a megaphone for an extended period of time may eventually violate one or more laws, but simply saying something mean doesn't qualify.
If he wants to walk up to families of the recently deceased and tell them that their dead relative was a horrible excuse for a human being, that's his own business. Eventually he'll get a reputation for being a dick and no one will want to associate with him.
While one is free to say whatever he or she may want, one is also responsible for that speech.
This is where laws regarding defamation of character, inciting violence/panic, and noise pollution come into play.
Over the long run, people who make untruthful speech or otherwise misuse their speech are generally recognized for this, at which point society can ignore them. That is why regardless of how hateful or untrue certain speech might be, I fully support the ability of a person to cry it from their soapbox. If nothing else it lets me know they can be ignored, but it also gives me the opportunity to address or refute it.
Probably because they don't have any documents pertaining to Russian actions in Chechnya. This is a group that leaked a list of their own contributors so it's not as though they're opposed to releasing the information for some reason. I imagine if they had something that they felt was reliable they'd release it.
Yeah, but it will be more of a pain in the ass for most people. I don't regularly use any social networking sites so I don't know what the experience is like on a smart phone, but it's probably not anywhere near as good as the experience from a web browser. Hell, if the company provides the smart phone, they're probably just as capable of locking it down as any of the staff machines. You can't stop 100% of people from getting access, but if you stop 95% of them, that's probably a satisfactory amount.
So in other words it's not timeliness so much as execution and a bit of luck?
If it were timeliness, all of the kids would be using socializing through MySpace on their early style Windows Slates/Tablets/Whatever-they-were-called on an AOL internet connection.
Seems as though the first mover isn't always the winner in terms of market share and/or mindshare.
Since they're so late out of the gate, they need to have a lot of functionality that's been developed in-house. If they didn't release music playing software, etc. the earliest adopters wouldn't have access to those kinds of applications until third parties can get their software ported over. That could take months.
Microsoft is eventually going to have an application store similar to Apple's app store or Google's android marketplace, but the hardware isn't out yet and the vast majority of developers don't have access to it so that they can port the applications over in time for the device launch. If Microsoft didn't create these features in house, they'd just get slammed by the the press for not having them in place.
A rich ecosystem isn't going to spring up overnight and if no one were to buy the phones because they lacked the kinds of applications or abilities found on Android phones and iPhones, then the developers probably wouldn't bother to develop for the platform and build that rich ecosystem. Apple could afford not to have one when they first shipped because there were few other devices that were anything like the iPhone; Microsoft can't.
actually the G2 has some of the best performance based on some benchmarks from AnandTech. If it's running bad on the G2, it's probably going to be worse on a lot of other phones. Of course this is still a beta so things will likely improve before the actual release, but you can't just dismiss the issues as being due to the hardware.
I know you're being facetious, but should anyone expect less from a company that charges over $60 for a six foot HDMI cable? I'm surprised that haven't created a surcharge for being able to enjoy getting shafted really hard.
I think that most of the people who are qualified to setup and maintain their own router are also qualified enough to determine exactly which of their machines are infected. Of course there will always be a few people who knew just enough about setting up a router to be dangerous, but if the network is completely open and someone using their network is spewing out spam or other garbage, it might tip off the network owner that they should secure their network.
IPv4 isn't a serious problem, and that part of the summary seems rather silly considering that anyone who has a serious network setup probably either has a good understanding of it or has a friend / family member with that knowledge. IPv6 would be a lot nicer, but the world is going to go on dragging its feet as long as it can.
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Sometimes I think the BS B.S. requirements are just to thin the applicant pool a little. You might miss out on some quality people, but it gives you an early short list. It's not feasible to interview every single person, especially for some low-level job. There's always some arbitrary line in the sand used to cull the pack. Why should a non-necessary degree requirement be any different than tossing any resume that has some minor grammatical error?
If you or anyone else has a better system, I'd love to hear it. After seeing the results of the current hiring policy, anything would be better.
Also saying that cats are anti-social isn't terribly true either. Cats can function more independently than many animals, but they're fairly social creatures. I'm taking care of my parents' cat while they're on vacation and that thing craves human attention as much as any dog I've seen. Wikipedia has some good information on the social behavior of cats.
There are several measures of intelligence. Cats are probably smarter than dogs in some capacities just as dogs may be considered more intelligent in others.
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It's mostly just evolution. Being able to recognize a friend (or enemy for that matter) in a busy environment is much more valuable than being able to do three digit multiplication from an evolutionary perspective. If we train people for it they're a lot better than the average person, but there's not much of a need for the ability to do it manually since there are calculators. If nature had selected on doing multiple digit math calculations instead of escaping predators and forming communities to better survive, our brains would be wired differently over the long run.
No, it just means that they probably don't have support for iTunes LP in previous versions of iTunes. I believe that most of it is done using HTML and CSS, so unless the content it plays is DRM-encumbered, there's no reason that some one else can't write software to play it back. Apple has posted a development guide, templates, and other information regarding the format.
Apple only has around 70% of the portable media player market and that will probably shrink as more consumers move away from the iPod and towards the iPhone. There are plenty of other small players in that market and with most music stores being DRM-free, there's no easy way to lock customers in to one environment. I know a few people who own iPods but get music through Amazon. Or people who buy music through iTunes for a nom-Apple device.
There are plenty of operating systems: Windows, OS X, and dozens of *nix flavors. OS X doesn't even have double digit marketshare so there's no monopoly in that space. Linux has gone from obscure and unusable for non-technical people to a viable OS that some hardware vendors offer as a option when buying a machine, so any oligopoly that may exist is quickly eroding. It would also be quite absurd to say that the two are in collusion as well.
Apple also seems to think the current general computing market will go away or significantly change shape over the next decade. It wouldn't surprise me if most people ten years from now use iPad-like devices for most of their computing needs. Serious computational work could be done by large server farms for cheap and developers or power users will be the only people who need a PC with large amounts of local computational power. The only market where there's even a hint of an oligopoly is going to radically change over the next decade.
The thing that pisses me off most about Go is having the lexer manage semicolons. Essentially it forces a style of coding that I dislike. I prefer to open braces on the following line as it makes it easier for me to read the program. It has some nice features that I like, but forcing a coding style like that is annoying.
Let's just cut to the chase and ban people from airplanes. Every single terrorist plot involving hijacking or detonating an explosive aboard an airplane involved at least one person. By completely banning people from flights, it will make air travel completely safe. This has the added benefit of allowing the TSA enough time to give everyone a full-cavity search since they no longer have to worry about being able to depart on time. After all, you never know where those terrorists might hide their explosives. Of course to do all of this in a timely manner, we'll need to double the number of TSA security personnel, but it's probably worth the extra hundred dollars just to know that the flight you can't take is completely safe from terrorists. Can't put a price on piece of mind after all.
Most people feed them.
You slay them.
Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the fucking vanguard of cell data in this country. The AT&T iPhone was the phone to own. Then the other guy came out with a 3G phone and service plan. Were we scared? Hell, no. Because we hit back with a little thing called the 3GS. That's three g's and an s. For something-or-other. But you know what happened next? Shut up, I'm telling you what happened—the bastards went to four g's. Now we're standing around with our cocks in our hands, selling three g's and an s. Defunct antenna or no, suddenly we're the chumps. Well, fuck it. We're going to five g's.
Sure, we could go to four g's next, like the competition. That seems like the logical thing to do. After all, three worked out pretty well, and four is the next number after three. So let's play it safe. Let's get a new iPhone and call it the 3GSTurbo. Why innovate when we can follow? Oh, I know why: Because we're a business, that's why!
You think it's crazy? It is crazy. But I don't give a shit. From now on, we're the ones who leave our customers using^W^W^W^W have the EDGE in the multi-g game. Are they the best a man can get? Fuck, no. AT&T is the best a man can get.
What part of this don't you understand? If two g's is good, and three g'sis better, obviously five g's would make us the best fucking cell network that ever existed. Comprende? We didn't claw our way to the top of the cellular provider game by clinging to the two-g industry standard. We got here by taking chances. Well, five g's is the biggest chance of all.
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Who can really say. Counter-example:
I'm doing graduate research involving monitoring students in computer science labs. Today the instructor asked how many students were planning to vote. Around 15% raised their hands. At least that many had a stunned look in their eyes as though they didn't even realize it was election day.
Young people may be more likely to own only cell-phones and tend to be much more progressive, but it seems as though they may be a lot less likely to vote. Most of them probably live within a few blocks of where they can vote and it's a nice day out so there's not much of an excuse.
I follow Silver's site as he often writes a lot about the statistics behind his model, which I usually find more interesting than the results or political commentary, but if these observations are true, why the hell aren't they built into his model? If these effects actually exist and skew polling results, why haven't they already been taken into consideration? Also, what effects exist that skew the results in the other direction and what evidence supports them?
This article feels sloppy, especially when compared to the usual high quality from fivethirtyeight. Let's wait another twelve hours and then we'll have a pretty good idea about the actual outcome and can start speculating what might have caused it to deviate from the expected results so that the prediction model can be adjusted accordingly.
Cheers!
I don't think it's part of the official achievements but feel free to mark it off on your score card. Good luck getting the coveted +5 Insightful post containing a goatse link though. That one's almost impossible.
I'd never heard of zippocat before this, but from your description I find it way more disturbing than two girls one cup.
Just out of curiosity, what kind of software is it that you would want to use?
I only ask this because a while back Apple said that they had already paid out $1 billion to developers. Considering that not all apps cost money and that this doesn't include data from Android phones, which have (or will in the near future) similar numbers of sales, it would appear as though there is a lot of software that people want to use.
Doesn't matter who you are or what you like, there's going to be a few people in the group that end up making the rest look bad. Look no further than the usual dozens of posts in stories such as this one that are either blatant Apple ass-kissing, or anti-Apple flame that usually isn't even related to the issue at hand.
Some of us like our Macs (or other Apple products) but get annoyed by the people who criticize anyone who uses anything else. Why the hell some people care so much about what kinds of computer devices other people use is beyond me.
I'd say harassment if he continued the comments, but just saying it once shouldn't qualify. Otherwise simply giving someone a piece of your mind would be illegal. Doing so through a megaphone for an extended period of time may eventually violate one or more laws, but simply saying something mean doesn't qualify.
If he wants to walk up to families of the recently deceased and tell them that their dead relative was a horrible excuse for a human being, that's his own business. Eventually he'll get a reputation for being a dick and no one will want to associate with him.
While one is free to say whatever he or she may want, one is also responsible for that speech.
This is where laws regarding defamation of character, inciting violence/panic, and noise pollution come into play.
Over the long run, people who make untruthful speech or otherwise misuse their speech are generally recognized for this, at which point society can ignore them. That is why regardless of how hateful or untrue certain speech might be, I fully support the ability of a person to cry it from their soapbox. If nothing else it lets me know they can be ignored, but it also gives me the opportunity to address or refute it.
Probably because they don't have any documents pertaining to Russian actions in Chechnya. This is a group that leaked a list of their own contributors so it's not as though they're opposed to releasing the information for some reason. I imagine if they had something that they felt was reliable they'd release it.
Yeah, but it will be more of a pain in the ass for most people. I don't regularly use any social networking sites so I don't know what the experience is like on a smart phone, but it's probably not anywhere near as good as the experience from a web browser. Hell, if the company provides the smart phone, they're probably just as capable of locking it down as any of the staff machines. You can't stop 100% of people from getting access, but if you stop 95% of them, that's probably a satisfactory amount.
So in other words it's not timeliness so much as execution and a bit of luck?
If it were timeliness, all of the kids would be using socializing through MySpace on their early style Windows Slates/Tablets/Whatever-they-were-called on an AOL internet connection.
Seems as though the first mover isn't always the winner in terms of market share and/or mindshare.
Since they're so late out of the gate, they need to have a lot of functionality that's been developed in-house. If they didn't release music playing software, etc. the earliest adopters wouldn't have access to those kinds of applications until third parties can get their software ported over. That could take months.
Microsoft is eventually going to have an application store similar to Apple's app store or Google's android marketplace, but the hardware isn't out yet and the vast majority of developers don't have access to it so that they can port the applications over in time for the device launch. If Microsoft didn't create these features in house, they'd just get slammed by the the press for not having them in place.
A rich ecosystem isn't going to spring up overnight and if no one were to buy the phones because they lacked the kinds of applications or abilities found on Android phones and iPhones, then the developers probably wouldn't bother to develop for the platform and build that rich ecosystem. Apple could afford not to have one when they first shipped because there were few other devices that were anything like the iPhone; Microsoft can't.
Reminds me of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle which has both been written about by a colonel involved with the project and had a movie based on the book filmed about it.
actually the G2 has some of the best performance based on some benchmarks from AnandTech. If it's running bad on the G2, it's probably going to be worse on a lot of other phones. Of course this is still a beta so things will likely improve before the actual release, but you can't just dismiss the issues as being due to the hardware.
I know you're being facetious, but should anyone expect less from a company that charges over $60 for a six foot HDMI cable? I'm surprised that haven't created a surcharge for being able to enjoy getting shafted really hard.
I think that most of the people who are qualified to setup and maintain their own router are also qualified enough to determine exactly which of their machines are infected. Of course there will always be a few people who knew just enough about setting up a router to be dangerous, but if the network is completely open and someone using their network is spewing out spam or other garbage, it might tip off the network owner that they should secure their network.
IPv4 isn't a serious problem, and that part of the summary seems rather silly considering that anyone who has a serious network setup probably either has a good understanding of it or has a friend / family member with that knowledge. IPv6 would be a lot nicer, but the world is going to go on dragging its feet as long as it can.