Talk about completely missing the point. You were off to such a good start when you said, "Presently, this feature of X is being under-utilized." But from there, you should make the jump that nobody gives a damn about a network-transparent graphics protocol and that every minute spent thinking about how to make it better is a wasted minute. The solution is not for application writers to better support X's model, but to realize that X's model is without value and scrap it. Why are you so interested in improving a feature that nobody uses or wants?
Google's wifi here in Mountain View is not very good. I can't get any reception on it, and I live less than a mile from their headquarters. If even Google can't get it right, city governments probably . . .
The rest of the above sentence is left as an exercise for the reader.
When I worked there, there was a meme that the Live division was one of the most "living" parts of the company. The guys who work there are younger, faster, and smarter than most of the other divisions' people. They also consistently make quality products (which do lose money, but you can't deny the quality).
It shouldn't be too surprising that they're on top of their game and willing to apologize. They have less to lose and more to gain.
For what it's worth, it's important to remember that people being pissed at a corporation doesn't mean the corporation has actually done anything illegal or immoral. One example is people being pissed about gas prices. I mean, it's fine to be pissed at the corporations that sell gas, but on some level, you have to remember that the prices are high because the cost of production is high.
That said, I haven't experienced Dell's customer service, because I have never been silly enough to buy one of their machines. Everything I've heard indicates it might be lawsuit-worthy.
In what world is Hawaii a substantial force in anything besides tourism? It's a great state, don't get me wrong, but California, Florida, New York, Texas, Missouri, and several other states have greater clout in almost all dimensions. The chief uniqueness of Hawaii is its (relatively) peaceful ethnic blending and its distance from the rest of the states.
You would be able to use the disassembled code, but without the accompanying documentation and source, it would be much harder. Think how much trouble the Wine folks are having getting Wine to work completely, even knowing the header files and function definitions they must implement. And you propose to use (stripped, optimized, obfuscated) binary without even that level of assistance? It won't work like you hope without copyright and the GPL.
I apologize if this is an uncharitable interpretation of your argument, but I couldn't find anything more solid to poke at.
Some people on the site are not good at interacting socially. -> All people on the site are not good at interacting socially. -> Criticism of anyone's social abilities, no matter how poor, is invalid.
Is that about the size of it? Speaking of laughing, I must admit I am laughing too . . .
This anecdote is exactly as valid as American auto workers who blame "the Japs" for the loss of their jobs. Piracy just an easy, visible target. Looking within the industry for the problems is harder but probably more rewarding if you want to find the true cause of the failure.
Actually finding this cause, though, does not guarantee it can be fixed. Like the blacksmith industry after the advent of the assembly line and modern technology, there will be only so much the music industry can do for itself.
Same situation, opposite side. I'm the American. My girlfriend was lucky enough to get an H1-B early on in the process last year. I'm sorry to hear about your difficulties. It is no fun being the American in this equation either. Best of luck.
This was the way it was at my school too. When we went to the competition, we had to beg a professor to "coach" us, since you can't legally enter the contest without one. Even then, we ended up doing a good chunk of the paperwork that the coach would normally fill out. There was no "development abstraction layer" for us.
However, he did take time out of his schedule to come chill with us in San Antonio at the finals. The school also did offer to fly us out, but another entity took care of that angle. I can't give him or my school too much of a hard time about it, but I have no doubt that certain other institutions put a much higher priority on the contest than mine.
I don't understand the problem here. Wikipedia is like Unix. Since the last ten percent (verifying credentials) requires massive effort compared to the status quo, don't worry about it. What you're already doing works in the majority of cases.
If you are a good programmer, learning a new language or system shouldn't be an issue. For that reason, take whatever job brings in the highest salary + satisfaction, however you choose to measure that. Another job well done can only positively affect your prospects in this industry.:)
I too doubt that political speech would cover this case. I understand what the guy is trying to do, but you've got to be pretty fucking naive to think that you could release this kind of vulnerability and avoid any negative repercussions. Come on, security researchers, you know what the political climate is! Is there no other way to point out that something may be easily forged besides actually creating a tool to forge it!?
I can't really argue about what might happen if NASA wasn't there. Also, I don't argue that NASA hasn't produced many valuable things in the past. Didn't microwaves and satellites come originally from NASA (Or other governments' space programs)? But I haven't heard of anything useful from that organization recently.
Perhaps the real problem is that the common man can't really see what NASA is doing for him. If NASA has recently made advances related to the manned space program that have a positive impact in my life, I don't know about them. I'd love to, though, and I'd love to know about it without having to do much extra work.
"Will a serious mishap in space be the end of our manned space program?"
We can only hope that something ends it. Just like the war in Iraq, we waste so much money on the manned space program that we could put to better use. Isn't most of the benefit of our space program now in the unmanned parts -- i.e. the launching of satellites and probes?
I went back and read my assignment on this subject again, and I've updated my argument. Here's the comment. Again, I'm not making the argument that individuals always respond rationally to incentives. I am saying that we can make useful predictions by pretending that they do.
Yeah, I still think you're making a mistake. I'm going to quote Landsberg again (Forgive me for using his book as a bible -- I've been studying for my exam and this is what is fresh in my head):
"Still, much human behavior appears on the face of it to be irrational. When a celebrity endorses a product, sales increase even though the endorsement appears to convey no information about quality."
And later . . .
"What useful information can there be in knowing that the manufactuerr of your overnight bag paid a six-figure fee to feature a famous person in a television commercial? How can it be rational to choose your luggage on this basis?
Let me suggest an answer. A lot of people make luggage, and they pursue different formulas for success. Some go for the quick killing, turning out cheap product . ... Others hav ea long-term strategy: Produce quality goods, let the market learn about them, and reap the eventual rewards. Those in the latter group want to be sure that consumers know who they are.
One way for a firm to accomplish this is to very publicly post a bond to guarantee its continued existence . . .
Hiring a celebrity to endorse your product is like posting a bond. The firm makes a substantial investment up front and reaps returs over a long period of time. A firm that expects to disappear in a year won't make such an investment."
And so on. In this way I believe the effects of almost all marketing may be explained: not necessarily with this reason exactly, but with this line of reasoning. I hold to the idea that people, on average, respond rationally to incentives, and attempt to find a way explain reality with that idea. According to Landsberg, no honest study has yet shown this assumption false. We have been able to reliably make useful predictions about the world through the study of economics, and its predictions in this arena should be as good as anywhere else.
I know I'm changing my argument a little bit. My thoughts are also shifting as I learn more.
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Talk about completely missing the point. You were off to such a good start when you said, "Presently, this feature of X is being under-utilized." But from there, you should make the jump that nobody gives a damn about a network-transparent graphics protocol and that every minute spent thinking about how to make it better is a wasted minute. The solution is not for application writers to better support X's model, but to realize that X's model is without value and scrap it. Why are you so interested in improving a feature that nobody uses or wants?
I will never be able to forget the scene where the girl eats the guy. I wish I had never read this book.
Haha, I love Emacs, but this is not true. I'm already using a 23 alpha build. Xft antialiased fonts are . . . necessary to me.
Google's wifi here in Mountain View is not very good. I can't get any reception on it, and I live less than a mile from their headquarters. If even Google can't get it right, city governments probably . . .
The rest of the above sentence is left as an exercise for the reader.
You know somebody's going to be playing naked just to make the random screeners uncomfortable. :P
When I worked there, there was a meme that the Live division was one of the most "living" parts of the company. The guys who work there are younger, faster, and smarter than most of the other divisions' people. They also consistently make quality products (which do lose money, but you can't deny the quality).
It shouldn't be too surprising that they're on top of their game and willing to apologize. They have less to lose and more to gain.
For what it's worth, it's important to remember that people being pissed at a corporation doesn't mean the corporation has actually done anything illegal or immoral. One example is people being pissed about gas prices. I mean, it's fine to be pissed at the corporations that sell gas, but on some level, you have to remember that the prices are high because the cost of production is high.
That said, I haven't experienced Dell's customer service, because I have never been silly enough to buy one of their machines. Everything I've heard indicates it might be lawsuit-worthy.
In what world is Hawaii a substantial force in anything besides tourism? It's a great state, don't get me wrong, but California, Florida, New York, Texas, Missouri, and several other states have greater clout in almost all dimensions. The chief uniqueness of Hawaii is its (relatively) peaceful ethnic blending and its distance from the rest of the states.
You would be able to use the disassembled code, but without the accompanying documentation and source, it would be much harder. Think how much trouble the Wine folks are having getting Wine to work completely, even knowing the header files and function definitions they must implement. And you propose to use (stripped, optimized, obfuscated) binary without even that level of assistance? It won't work like you hope without copyright and the GPL.
I apologize if this is an uncharitable interpretation of your argument, but I couldn't find anything more solid to poke at.
Yes. Yes it does. A salient discussion of the argument's points and their shortcomings is a good place to start.
I had a little LOL at that one. I've got mod points but I'll save them, since I know you're going straight to +5 funny anyway.
Some people on the site are not good at interacting socially.
-> All people on the site are not good at interacting socially.
-> Criticism of anyone's social abilities, no matter how poor, is invalid.
Is that about the size of it? Speaking of laughing, I must admit I am laughing too . . .
This anecdote is exactly as valid as American auto workers who blame "the Japs" for the loss of their jobs. Piracy just an easy, visible target. Looking within the industry for the problems is harder but probably more rewarding if you want to find the true cause of the failure.
Actually finding this cause, though, does not guarantee it can be fixed. Like the blacksmith industry after the advent of the assembly line and modern technology, there will be only so much the music industry can do for itself.
Same situation, opposite side. I'm the American. My girlfriend was lucky enough to get an H1-B early on in the process last year. I'm sorry to hear about your difficulties. It is no fun being the American in this equation either. Best of luck.
This was the way it was at my school too. When we went to the competition, we had to beg a professor to "coach" us, since you can't legally enter the contest without one. Even then, we ended up doing a good chunk of the paperwork that the coach would normally fill out. There was no "development abstraction layer" for us.
However, he did take time out of his schedule to come chill with us in San Antonio at the finals. The school also did offer to fly us out, but another entity took care of that angle. I can't give him or my school too much of a hard time about it, but I have no doubt that certain other institutions put a much higher priority on the contest than mine.
I don't understand the problem here. Wikipedia is like Unix. Since the last ten percent (verifying credentials) requires massive effort compared to the status quo, don't worry about it. What you're already doing works in the majority of cases.
If you are a good programmer, learning a new language or system shouldn't be an issue. For that reason, take whatever job brings in the highest salary + satisfaction, however you choose to measure that. Another job well done can only positively affect your prospects in this industry. :)
I agree wholeheartedly.
AFAIK, the tool does not make a real barcode. You wouldn't even get past the gate.
I too doubt that political speech would cover this case. I understand what the guy is trying to do, but you've got to be pretty fucking naive to think that you could release this kind of vulnerability and avoid any negative repercussions. Come on, security researchers, you know what the political climate is! Is there no other way to point out that something may be easily forged besides actually creating a tool to forge it!?
Sounds like engineering school . . .
I can't really argue about what might happen if NASA wasn't there. Also, I don't argue that NASA hasn't produced many valuable things in the past. Didn't microwaves and satellites come originally from NASA (Or other governments' space programs)? But I haven't heard of anything useful from that organization recently.
Perhaps the real problem is that the common man can't really see what NASA is doing for him. If NASA has recently made advances related to the manned space program that have a positive impact in my life, I don't know about them. I'd love to, though, and I'd love to know about it without having to do much extra work.
"Will a serious mishap in space be the end of our manned space program?"
We can only hope that something ends it. Just like the war in Iraq, we waste so much money on the manned space program that we could put to better use. Isn't most of the benefit of our space program now in the unmanned parts -- i.e. the launching of satellites and probes?
I went back and read my assignment on this subject again, and I've updated my argument. Here's the comment. Again, I'm not making the argument that individuals always respond rationally to incentives. I am saying that we can make useful predictions by pretending that they do.
Yeah, I still think you're making a mistake. I'm going to quote Landsberg again (Forgive me for using his book as a bible -- I've been studying for my exam and this is what is fresh in my head):
.. Others hav ea long-term strategy: Produce quality goods, let the market learn about them, and reap the eventual rewards. Those in the latter group want to be sure that consumers know who they are.
"Still, much human behavior appears on the face of it to be irrational. When a celebrity endorses a product, sales increase even though the endorsement appears to convey no information about quality."
And later . . .
"What useful information can there be in knowing that the manufactuerr of your overnight bag paid a six-figure fee to feature a famous person in a television commercial? How can it be rational to choose your luggage on this basis?
Let me suggest an answer. A lot of people make luggage, and they pursue different formulas for success. Some go for the quick killing, turning out cheap product . .
One way for a firm to accomplish this is to very publicly post a bond to guarantee its continued existence . . .
Hiring a celebrity to endorse your product is like posting a bond. The firm makes a substantial investment up front and reaps returs over a long period of time. A firm that expects to disappear in a year won't make such an investment."
And so on. In this way I believe the effects of almost all marketing may be explained: not necessarily with this reason exactly, but with this line of reasoning. I hold to the idea that people, on average, respond rationally to incentives, and attempt to find a way explain reality with that idea. According to Landsberg, no honest study has yet shown this assumption false. We have been able to reliably make useful predictions about the world through the study of economics, and its predictions in this arena should be as good as anywhere else.
I know I'm changing my argument a little bit. My thoughts are also shifting as I learn more.