We reinforced the cabin doors, and that's all we ever needed to do to prevent another 9/11
But such a simple solution won't make companies any money. And you know it's all about making companies money these days. Especially when the top administrators can get a kickback in the form of a high-paying lobbying job once they quit the TSA.
Yes, but Facebook was orginally built as a way for people to reconnect after college. School to school makes sense for that purpose, because the people most likely on your network was going to be in the same school as you. So either your school was there, or it wasn't, and it didn't impact existing users much in terms of who they could contact.
Also don't forget that Facebook was an unknown when it began. Google's a huge name. Everybody would want to be on it, and if they don't succeed, then they'll have a negative impression of it and give up.
Google needs to roll out by giving out a certain number of non-accumulating invites to each of its users on a set interval. That way, people can say to their friends, "Sure, I'm on it, but I won't have anymore invites until 'x time period' so I'll invite you then." That's how to roll out a new social networking service.
Not so much a new technology, but DNS is just a name service. The IP is still there. It'll eventually come down to a matter of accessing sites by the IP address. And to do that, all we need is one site with an easy-to-remember IP address that lists all of the blacklisted sites by their IP address.
It's not really a solution for many smaller sites who can't get their own IP. But then again, maybe it'll finally force server admins to enable access to sites they host by IP.
Several bible stories are fairly sexual in nature as well. Genesis 19:31-38 is a particularly disturbing one. Sex and violence are equally present in traditional folklore. Violence in general perhaps more so, but violence towards other humans is on par with sex.
not just in American history but in western society leading up to American
Western Europe is far more relaxed about sex than here, and almost always has been that way. And it's a free for all in Eastern European society. So I have no idea where that particular generalization comes from. The only ones particularly anal about sex were the puritans. In fact, that's one of the reasons I believe for which they got kicked out of Europe.
Not only that, but if you save off your videos to watch later, you can theoretically do the transfer at any point in the day, not just during peak times when everybody else is streaming video or doing voice calls.
I find that difficult to believe. More likely, the institution at where you learned how to code did not teach you well rather than the state of programming education in the U.S. in general. Or you mistook Information Technology vs. Computer Science vs. Software Engineering, which are 3 very different fields despite all three involving "computer programming" in its curriculum.
I've found that software engineered by SE-major professionals in the U.S. are better in terms of design. They are more easily maintained, better compartmentalized, and conform to a design pattern that is appropriate for the situation. I find that software written by those with only some kind of certification or by IT majors in general to be poor, with little in the way of design patterns, lots of code duplication, and in general no thought to the design or what fits the problem. CS majors aren't trained to be designing large applications at all, but I find those who do are are fairly competent, especially if their CS program includes some amount of SE.
I find software written in China and India to be of an even lower quality, though I should qualify that there certainly are good software engineers coming from both countries. Additionally, I think a large amount of people out there working (all over the world) as "programmers" are actually hacking their way through their projects. And I don't mean hacking in the sense of cracking, but hacking as in trying to fit the square peg into the round hole by chipping the corners of the square peg away.
This is largely because the barriers to entry are so low, demand is sufficiently high, and none of the managers know (or possibly care) what good code is, or what a good developer is worth in the long term, and will hire anyone who can write "Hello World!" in VB.
But back to the point, I think the best-trained software engineer trained in the States or Europe would beat the best-trained software engineer in any other part of the world. This is largely because of the culture of freedom of expression. Software engineering is as much an art form in that it requires creative thinking as it is a mathematical science in that it requires logical thinking, and art flourishes when there is a strong culture of freedom of expression.
Now, other parts of the world may produce better code monkeys that are good at mindlessly churning out code, and that may also be a cultural by-product. But from my experience, they certainly don't produce very good software designers and architects.
And the designer, the architect, the engineer is what companies need, what people here need to study, and what the best institutions in the States and Europe teach.
RL anonymity is dead. But it never existed in the first place.
Online anonymity is still alive and kicking, thank you very much. That Anonymous even exists is testament to the ubiquity and the power of internet anonymity.
Most people don't differenciate their internet presence from their real life. They bring it online via social networking, e-commerce, e-banking, and other services that replace what would otherwise be done in RL. This is why anonymity appears to be dying--because it never really existed for those people in the first place.
But for those who do make the differenciation, from cleanly separating their online persona from their real life identity, to those who separate their RL internet presence from their ulterior internet presence, it is still very possible to be completely or almost completely anonymous.
Now, draw the ire of the FBI or CIA and that's a different story.
When all of your users are willing to pay the Apple tax, you know they're casual with how they spend money.
When you have a diverse device base, you likewise have a diverse user base. Of course percentage-wise, the iOS users will be more willing to spend money compared to Android as an ecosystem.
The design works because of the mentality of the people present. People there want to enjoy themselves. They're certainly going to stay away from areas that make their experience less enjoyable.
It does nothing for a determined malefactor who would not be there for an enjoyable experience, but for other purposes.
I wonder how many of these people would have used the piano stairs after a few days, or a week?
Better yet, ask how many people would be ready to rip those artificial noise-makers out after a month.
Novelty is great initially. But it wears out. And if there's nothing to replace it, novelty becomes normal, or often worse.
This is why, as another poster noted above, what's "in" keeps changing every few years. It's because marketers know they have to keep their product feeling new and refreshing, and the easiest way to do that is to continue to make it appear novel. Otherwise, people grow complacent. The new thing of last year becomes the old thing of next year. And old things are uninteresting.
By switching things up every so often, they can keep people interested and keep the money rolling in.
This is also why timeless classics are truly a cut above the rest; they remaining interesting no matter what's currently popular.
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RTFA. Or more accurately, read the Wired/Ars article (they're the same) linked to in some of the posts above, because the editors can't be bothered to do any actual editing.
Hunt noted that Righthaven and Stephens Media had agreed to share the proceeds of any damages awards or settlementsâ"but Stephens Media kept ownership of the copyright.
but 20 of them can live in a single apartment due to their culture/lifestyle
You can rant all you want about the wealthy at the top sucking up all of your hard-earned money, but if your excuse for not taking the 40k job is because you have a lifestyle to maintain, then that sucks to be you.
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We reinforced the cabin doors, and that's all we ever needed to do to prevent another 9/11
But such a simple solution won't make companies any money. And you know it's all about making companies money these days. Especially when the top administrators can get a kickback in the form of a high-paying lobbying job once they quit the TSA.
Or they might continue to insist on more ridiculous security theater until nobody flies anymore.
And you were expecting any better of Facebook? Really?
Time and time again, they've shown themselves to be douches. Just because they're "hot" right now doesn't mean they're not pricks.
Yes, but Facebook was orginally built as a way for people to reconnect after college. School to school makes sense for that purpose, because the people most likely on your network was going to be in the same school as you. So either your school was there, or it wasn't, and it didn't impact existing users much in terms of who they could contact.
Also don't forget that Facebook was an unknown when it began. Google's a huge name. Everybody would want to be on it, and if they don't succeed, then they'll have a negative impression of it and give up.
Google needs to roll out by giving out a certain number of non-accumulating invites to each of its users on a set interval. That way, people can say to their friends, "Sure, I'm on it, but I won't have anymore invites until 'x time period' so I'll invite you then." That's how to roll out a new social networking service.
Not so much a new technology, but DNS is just a name service. The IP is still there. It'll eventually come down to a matter of accessing sites by the IP address. And to do that, all we need is one site with an easy-to-remember IP address that lists all of the blacklisted sites by their IP address.
It's not really a solution for many smaller sites who can't get their own IP. But then again, maybe it'll finally force server admins to enable access to sites they host by IP.
And a monopoly is by no means illegal. Anti-trust behavior based on having that monopoly, however, is.
Several bible stories are fairly sexual in nature as well. Genesis 19:31-38 is a particularly disturbing one. Sex and violence are equally present in traditional folklore. Violence in general perhaps more so, but violence towards other humans is on par with sex.
not just in American history but in western society leading up to American
Western Europe is far more relaxed about sex than here, and almost always has been that way. And it's a free for all in Eastern European society. So I have no idea where that particular generalization comes from. The only ones particularly anal about sex were the puritans. In fact, that's one of the reasons I believe for which they got kicked out of Europe.
Hey, don't blame baby Superman, he didn't have any parents to teach him not to litter!
Because opening the start menu puts you in the search bar.
This is where they went wrong.
Opening the start menu should put you into the start menu, not some component thereof whereby you then can't get out of.
Hey, it's the 60's all over again!
Who said this was low-dose radiation coming out of those scanners?
I see no problem with a state limiting what a minor may buy.
State != parent
Not only that, but if you save off your videos to watch later, you can theoretically do the transfer at any point in the day, not just during peak times when everybody else is streaming video or doing voice calls.
I find that difficult to believe. More likely, the institution at where you learned how to code did not teach you well rather than the state of programming education in the U.S. in general. Or you mistook Information Technology vs. Computer Science vs. Software Engineering, which are 3 very different fields despite all three involving "computer programming" in its curriculum.
I've found that software engineered by SE-major professionals in the U.S. are better in terms of design. They are more easily maintained, better compartmentalized, and conform to a design pattern that is appropriate for the situation. I find that software written by those with only some kind of certification or by IT majors in general to be poor, with little in the way of design patterns, lots of code duplication, and in general no thought to the design or what fits the problem. CS majors aren't trained to be designing large applications at all, but I find those who do are are fairly competent, especially if their CS program includes some amount of SE.
I find software written in China and India to be of an even lower quality, though I should qualify that there certainly are good software engineers coming from both countries. Additionally, I think a large amount of people out there working (all over the world) as "programmers" are actually hacking their way through their projects. And I don't mean hacking in the sense of cracking, but hacking as in trying to fit the square peg into the round hole by chipping the corners of the square peg away.
This is largely because the barriers to entry are so low, demand is sufficiently high, and none of the managers know (or possibly care) what good code is, or what a good developer is worth in the long term, and will hire anyone who can write "Hello World!" in VB.
But back to the point, I think the best-trained software engineer trained in the States or Europe would beat the best-trained software engineer in any other part of the world. This is largely because of the culture of freedom of expression. Software engineering is as much an art form in that it requires creative thinking as it is a mathematical science in that it requires logical thinking, and art flourishes when there is a strong culture of freedom of expression.
Now, other parts of the world may produce better code monkeys that are good at mindlessly churning out code, and that may also be a cultural by-product. But from my experience, they certainly don't produce very good software designers and architects.
And the designer, the architect, the engineer is what companies need, what people here need to study, and what the best institutions in the States and Europe teach.
Why should anyone be surprised that humans have the same problem
Some people believe humans are clearly separate from and superior to animals and thus not subject to the same instincts and behaviors.
They are wrong, but they are loud.
Apple uses patents offensively to stifle competition. Your statement is loaded by implying otherwise.
They're not Google or even (arguably) Microsoft, who'll use patents defensively.
RL anonymity is dead. But it never existed in the first place.
Online anonymity is still alive and kicking, thank you very much. That Anonymous even exists is testament to the ubiquity and the power of internet anonymity.
Most people don't differenciate their internet presence from their real life. They bring it online via social networking, e-commerce, e-banking, and other services that replace what would otherwise be done in RL. This is why anonymity appears to be dying--because it never really existed for those people in the first place.
But for those who do make the differenciation, from cleanly separating their online persona from their real life identity, to those who separate their RL internet presence from their ulterior internet presence, it is still very possible to be completely or almost completely anonymous.
Now, draw the ire of the FBI or CIA and that's a different story.
When all of your users are willing to pay the Apple tax, you know they're casual with how they spend money.
When you have a diverse device base, you likewise have a diverse user base. Of course percentage-wise, the iOS users will be more willing to spend money compared to Android as an ecosystem.
It's about time! 42nd Street peep shows, here we go again!
American is the regional dialect.
You must not be American.
The design works because of the mentality of the people present. People there want to enjoy themselves. They're certainly going to stay away from areas that make their experience less enjoyable.
It does nothing for a determined malefactor who would not be there for an enjoyable experience, but for other purposes.
I wonder how many of these people would have used the piano stairs after a few days, or a week?
Better yet, ask how many people would be ready to rip those artificial noise-makers out after a month.
Novelty is great initially. But it wears out. And if there's nothing to replace it, novelty becomes normal, or often worse.
This is why, as another poster noted above, what's "in" keeps changing every few years. It's because marketers know they have to keep their product feeling new and refreshing, and the easiest way to do that is to continue to make it appear novel. Otherwise, people grow complacent. The new thing of last year becomes the old thing of next year. And old things are uninteresting.
By switching things up every so often, they can keep people interested and keep the money rolling in.
This is also why timeless classics are truly a cut above the rest; they remaining interesting no matter what's currently popular.
RTFA. Or more accurately, read the Wired/Ars article (they're the same) linked to in some of the posts above, because the editors can't be bothered to do any actual editing.
Hunt noted that Righthaven and Stephens Media had agreed to share the proceeds of any damages awards or settlementsâ"but Stephens Media kept ownership of the copyright.
a new term for "person who messes with computer systems for fun".
I believe we're called geeks now--computer geeks.
but 20 of them can live in a single apartment due to their culture/lifestyle
You can rant all you want about the wealthy at the top sucking up all of your hard-earned money, but if your excuse for not taking the 40k job is because you have a lifestyle to maintain, then that sucks to be you.