Not only is this absolutely true, the worst part is Ron Paul supporters are very active on the Internet trying to shut up everyone pointing this out and twisting the truth. This so called democratic question-answer debate is just an example: it won't touch the subject to start with like we're morons, people who touched it are voted down as "trolls". Personally I think if you proclaim you don't believe in evolution than that's a troll right there of huge proportions. Still, after his admission I haven't got a single question left for Mr. Ron Paul. Just as I have no questions for some candidate who denies the earth is flat. Silencing that fact down is just pure madness and turns Ron Paul into just any candidate. Twisting and spinning and as insane as the guy who thinks the earth is flat. It just doesn't seem to be a small point you should try to silence. This man wants to be your president for gods sake. P.S. Dismissing the evolution theory as just a "theory" different from "the earth is flat" is just plain ignorance, and exactly a repeat of the earth is flat supporters. Read up on Richard Dawkins or something, but just guessing is plain ignorance.
That's true. Regarding Slashdot, if your target audience is national, "football" is ok..on the other hand if your target audience is international use "American Football", unless you want to communicate you're ignorant of the biggest sport on earth named with the same sequence of letters, and serve your percentage of international viewers a title which means something different to them.
It's an interesting idea, but the only part that elevates it from just being another step in a war of arms, is the last part where it deals with compromises. It says attacks need to be recognized and then the captcha is modified. But this is what they already do or should be doing. Recognition is hard though with requests coming from any possible computer from a huge botfarm. But sites like Yahoo should simply rotate their captcha generation algorithms as soon as they know they have been compromised or even sooner. One can't win a weapon's race, the only step left is to embrace it and always be a step ahead. Just like no captcha, in the end, will be save from hackers - no hacker is save from a captcha routine changing just before or after you hacked the previous one. Game over.
Hey Bill, it's cool and all you want to rescue your soul by giving money away after you became a billionaire by breaking every rule in the "kinder business" rule book, but now shut the fuck up will ya? If it weren't for your practices, you wouldn't be in this position to tell us these practices are bad. Don't be a leech of humanity first and then then people not to be a leech. We all remember your business practices, no matter how much you give away now.
I agree that fortresses guarded by secretaries are the opposite end of the spectrum and no good either. The English are still pretty good (or bad) at that.
If you look at some of the big guys who dig deep into this like IBM or Microsoft, they end up with a small cluster of offices spanning a central meeting area. See for example: http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/171/ibmsj1701C.pdf
Or even: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BionicOffice.html
What is it with the open office people that they always want to use this "collaboration" or "communication" points?
Explain it to me, how is it superior to stepping outside your office for a mo and talking to someone?
Are you unable to get up and walk out the door? Is it the 5 seconds time saving?
Are you an extreme programmer? How many minutes of a day do you communicate? Is it 60m? 120m? How many hours do you work in a day? 8?
In those 6 to 7 hours, you are in an environment that is noisy because of others' communications without advantage to you. A particular setup.
So what you're saying is that if, say, one has a job where you have to be on the phone an hour a day, the best way to operate is to always have the receiver at your ear and ignore it till it mentions your name.
No sir, the "communication" point is just nonsense. If you want to make a point, talk about "socializing", or, since there is no money in that, use the magic "team work". This will work much better for you, as at the same time, without name calling, you portrait your introvert counterpart as unsocial or not a team worker, which only makes you look better!
Logic dictates that "concentration" workers should have offices. Communication jobs, like many of the management or HR, could use the open floor plan. The only reasons it's the opposite are status and finance. In my experience the second reason is most often a case of "penny wise, pound stupid", although one can argue that if the work is not rocket science and if you get a team of junior extrovert monkeys and it works for them on an open plan, it works for the company and it's cheaper.
The reason MS is very afraid is very simple.
With prices of hardware dropping to a couple of hundred of dollars and below people nowadays get machines that do everything they need and it will probably be the most powerful computer they ever bought. With these tight margins, hardware makers proceed the next biggest cost factor they can cut and beat the competition again. That next element is Windows. Windows biggest enemy if falling hardware prices. When it was only a couple of percent of the whole price, no one noticed. Now it's in tens of percents.
I would never purchase an Optimus keyboard because there is no muscle behind it. Funny, that. I seem to avoid purchasing products from companies when there's too much muscle behind it. Big companies are too powerful as it is. No Microsoft keyboard for me, for example, I rather spend on a small, promising player.
I wonder how you got modded 5 Interesting. There is no such thing as "the warmer light of the light bulb". Light bulbs and CFLs come in a variety of color temperatures. You can have a warmer CFL than your normal light bulb. Hey, I don't think computers will get anywhere with their low resolution displays, only 32 colors and little memory. Oh wait, that was 15 years ago. It's funny how people that should be technology savvy become twits when it comes to CFLs. Yet, the lack of knowledge didn't seem to stop you from posting. If you showed such ignorance about, say, Linux here, you'd have tarred and feathered. Alas, +5 for you. But no, CFLs aren't the cold colored, slow starting, undimmable, large affairs they were when introduced way back in the dark ages.
Science is the art of measurement my friend, within defined entities and boundaries like the laws of nature. Billing in Italian restaurants clearly fall outside this scope.
Using Dirk Gently's I Ching Calculator (please do follow the instructions), I came to the following conclusion regarding renaming the street:
THE JUDGEMENT OF KING WEN:
28. EXTREME OVERLOAD
The Environment Is Demand Temporarily Load With Many Events, Ideas And Situations, Which Your Consideration. You/They May Fight In Your Attempt, To Solve Problems. If Problems Is Not Bothered From Misunderstanding And Lack At Assessment By Other At Your Attempts, To Solve. If Your Poise Maintain Will Help You, To Follow. Do Not Use Powerful Methods. His Flexible And Prepare You For Fast Passages.
THE COMMENTARY OF THE DUKE OF CHOU:
Line 2: With The Right Companions, You Can Reach Almost Everything
You're both right. People need to make a living - being a philanthropist pays badly by definition. On the other hand, the people who pay are the people who set your agenda - and you are essentially working for the boss. If the open part is the only thing you're interested in, that is ok. Me, however, have some other motivations. One of them is the ability to set my agenda - as an individual or as a group - based on technical merits and such, not based on the agenda by big corporations and stock holders.
The problem is when Sun etc. start paying, the pool of available programmers decreases for other projects, and big corporations start setting the agenda of the open source community. If I were Microsoft or Google (summer of code), this sounds like a good strategy... just hand out some cash to the communities which don't threaten you in any way, grow them, and thus minimize the communities which might threaten you.
Ford Prefect, talking to Arthur Dent about an immense robot that came from a flying saucer (destroying a huge area including Harrods), and said "Take me to your Lizard.":
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and
coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced
down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so
straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders
are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the
people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse,
"why don't people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got
the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government
they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they
want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong
lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
Wow, you did so well until the crop circle bit. There's something full of joy, sad, and disturbing at the same time about denying fine people like Doug Bower and Dave Chorley their hoax, and I applaud you for it, sir.
>tell me why Google should ignore criminal abuse of its networks and services
According to which final ruling? Innocent unless proven guilty.
I haven't heart the defense yet. Tell me why Google should be on the prosecutors side. This is Google taking a stand, instead of Google letting the judge make a stand first with a final ruling. He's probably guilty - which is what leads to emotional decisions like this, but I don't think you fully appreciate the glide path here. Are the commercial employees of Google from now on deciding which cases they will decide guilty or no guilty themselves, and which they'll leave to a final ruling by a judge?
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Everything indicates the rocks are moved by humans. It's an attempt to create a misery, like Loch Ness or the grain circles. Each article about the rocks states, just as with the grain circles, that there was no evidence of human activity - while you can easily walk around without leaving trails, especially behind the rocks, and if you leave tails there you can clear them. Rather suspicious how easily it is dismissed. What did Sherlock say about elimitating the impossible? The sliding rocks leaves mud at he sides of the trail in many pictures, up to an inch high or so. With the required forces of wind or water, this would have been wiped away. The sliding rocks pushes into the ground in many pictures, evidence of much frictional forces at work. We can eliminate ice and sliding. We have eliminated the elements. What we can't eliminate is some guys pushing the rocks forward deep in the night and wiping any footsteps - if their weight leaves any at all to start of with. We have eliminated the impossible, so what remains is the only possible option: humans moved the rocks.
One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.
Anywhere it can get some kind of a grip, whether it's the in toxicating seas of Santraginus V, where the fish never seem to care whatever the heck kind
of direction they swim in, the fire storms of Frastra where, they say, life begins at 40,000 degrees, or just burrowing around in
the lower intestine of a rat for the sheer unadulterated hell of it, life will always find a way of hanging on in somewhere.
It will even live in New York, though it's hard to know why.
In the winter time the temperature falls well below the legal
minimum, or rather it would do if anybody had the common
sense to set a legal minimum. The last time anybody made a
list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers,
common sense snuck in at number 79.
In the summer it's too darn hot. It's one thing to be the sort
of life form that thrives on heat and finds, as the Frastrans do,
that the temperature range between 40,000 and 40,004 is very equable, but it's quite another to
be the sort of animal that has to wrap itself up in lots of other animals at one point in your
planet's orbit, and then find, half an orbit later, that your skin's bubbling.
He also has a reputation in Boston -- and increasingly around the world -- as a popular VJ, video artist, performance artist and painter. Sentenced to 80 hours community service for his crime, he made the most of it, painting a delightfully trippy mural for Spaulding (physical) Rehabilitation Center. He was also recently voted the #12 VJ in the world by London-based DJ Magazine and was named Boston's Best Artist by Improper Bostonian Magazine. Zebbler also recently appeared in Berkeley, Caliifornia where his surround sound HD projection set was part of the opening reception for RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA at the Pacific Film Archives -- an exhibit that "celebrates the cultural and artistic practice of remix." I also have a reputation in my home town - and increasingly around the world - as a popular commenter, flame artist and commiter, and recently visited another town to participate in a cultural and artistic celebration of trolling, where my computer was used in the opening reception. Furthermore, I was recently voted #11 train spotter, and was elected best train spotter by my local newspaper, and won 5 pounds of meat, which I donated to the community. If that didn't sufficiently impress you, my toenails are very large and I frequently joke about them.
It does. And with "academic achievements" they not only mean technical intelligence, they also mean "submissive qualities". A young Bill Gates or Larry Ellison will not be hired. They worked their way up outside the box. Google does not want people who think outside the box, and they are not looking for them, presumably because they are a threat to them or they are just looking for middle management. So they are looking for middle management with no chance, will or ability to develop their careers beyond that. Imagine what a thrill it must be to work there as an engineer. Direct lines up have been eliminated, and your "boss" is some kid who does not develop but does like to tell you how it all should be done, based on experiences gained by tracking sub-$100 dollar techno toys and being called brainiacs. I'm not sure what's worse. The hell of middle management I've experienced throughout my working life (non-talented thirty somethings who got into middle management because they have no skills at producing nor running a company), or the hell of roller-bladed smugness. On the upside, it all does not matter. Who cares how the ride of an advertisement company will turn out. The first and last things of creativity of brilliance were simplicity and page rank, and simplicity has been thrown overboard since they went public and require more page views and a diversity of services in order to place more ads.
Trivia for nerds, but no news. In fact, this link has been submitted a dozen times to sites such as digg and reddit. Despite the fact it is definitely not news. But don't let that stop you from posting all kinds of interesting articles from wikipedia. After all, there is no wikipedia site people can go to and read trivia. Oh wait..
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Not only is this absolutely true, the worst part is Ron Paul supporters are very active on the Internet trying to shut up everyone pointing this out and twisting the truth. This so called democratic question-answer debate is just an example: it won't touch the subject to start with like we're morons, people who touched it are voted down as "trolls". Personally I think if you proclaim you don't believe in evolution than that's a troll right there of huge proportions. Still, after his admission I haven't got a single question left for Mr. Ron Paul. Just as I have no questions for some candidate who denies the earth is flat. Silencing that fact down is just pure madness and turns Ron Paul into just any candidate. Twisting and spinning and as insane as the guy who thinks the earth is flat. It just doesn't seem to be a small point you should try to silence. This man wants to be your president for gods sake. P.S. Dismissing the evolution theory as just a "theory" different from "the earth is flat" is just plain ignorance, and exactly a repeat of the earth is flat supporters. Read up on Richard Dawkins or something, but just guessing is plain ignorance.
>Do you really think a Stanford guy like Yang wants to see his life's work swollowed up by "the borg."
I really hate MS, but if they would make me a multi-billionaire, I guess I'm inclined to hate them a little bit less.
That's true. Regarding Slashdot, if your target audience is national, "football" is ok..on the other hand if your target audience is international use "American Football", unless you want to communicate you're ignorant of the biggest sport on earth named with the same sequence of letters, and serve your percentage of international viewers a title which means something different to them.
It's an interesting idea, but the only part that elevates it from just being another step in a war of arms, is the last part where it deals with compromises. It says attacks need to be recognized and then the captcha is modified. But this is what they already do or should be doing. Recognition is hard though with requests coming from any possible computer from a huge botfarm. But sites like Yahoo should simply rotate their captcha generation algorithms as soon as they know they have been compromised or even sooner. One can't win a weapon's race, the only step left is to embrace it and always be a step ahead. Just like no captcha, in the end, will be save from hackers - no hacker is save from a captcha routine changing just before or after you hacked the previous one. Game over.
Hey Bill, it's cool and all you want to rescue your soul by giving money away after you became a billionaire by breaking every rule in the "kinder business" rule book, but now shut the fuck up will ya? If it weren't for your practices, you wouldn't be in this position to tell us these practices are bad. Don't be a leech of humanity first and then then people not to be a leech. We all remember your business practices, no matter how much you give away now.
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More big ass tables!
I agree that fortresses guarded by secretaries are the opposite end of the spectrum and no good either. The English are still pretty good (or bad) at that. If you look at some of the big guys who dig deep into this like IBM or Microsoft, they end up with a small cluster of offices spanning a central meeting area. See for example:
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/171/ibmsj1701C.pdf
Or even:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BionicOffice.html
So what you're saying is that if, say, one has a job where you have to be on the phone an hour a day, the best way to operate is to always have the receiver at your ear and ignore it till it mentions your name.
No sir, the "communication" point is just nonsense. If you want to make a point, talk about "socializing", or, since there is no money in that, use the magic "team work". This will work much better for you, as at the same time, without name calling, you portrait your introvert counterpart as unsocial or not a team worker, which only makes you look better!
Logic dictates that "concentration" workers should have offices. Communication jobs, like many of the management or HR, could use the open floor plan. The only reasons it's the opposite are status and finance. In my experience the second reason is most often a case of "penny wise, pound stupid", although one can argue that if the work is not rocket science and if you get a team of junior extrovert monkeys and it works for them on an open plan, it works for the company and it's cheaper.
The reason MS is very afraid is very simple. With prices of hardware dropping to a couple of hundred of dollars and below people nowadays get machines that do everything they need and it will probably be the most powerful computer they ever bought. With these tight margins, hardware makers proceed the next biggest cost factor they can cut and beat the competition again. That next element is Windows. Windows biggest enemy if falling hardware prices. When it was only a couple of percent of the whole price, no one noticed. Now it's in tens of percents.
I wonder how you got modded 5 Interesting. There is no such thing as "the warmer light of the light bulb". Light bulbs and CFLs come in a variety of color temperatures. You can have a warmer CFL than your normal light bulb. Hey, I don't think computers will get anywhere with their low resolution displays, only 32 colors and little memory. Oh wait, that was 15 years ago. It's funny how people that should be technology savvy become twits when it comes to CFLs. Yet, the lack of knowledge didn't seem to stop you from posting. If you showed such ignorance about, say, Linux here, you'd have tarred and feathered. Alas, +5 for you. But no, CFLs aren't the cold colored, slow starting, undimmable, large affairs they were when introduced way back in the dark ages.
Science is the art of measurement my friend, within defined entities and boundaries like the laws of nature. Billing in Italian restaurants clearly fall outside this scope.
Using Dirk Gently's I Ching Calculator (please do follow the instructions), I came to the following conclusion regarding renaming the street:
THE JUDGEMENT OF KING WEN:
28. EXTREME OVERLOAD
The Environment Is Demand Temporarily Load With Many Events, Ideas And Situations, Which Your Consideration. You/They May Fight In Your Attempt, To Solve Problems. If Problems Is Not Bothered From Misunderstanding And Lack At Assessment By Other At Your Attempts, To Solve. If Your Poise Maintain Will Help You, To Follow. Do Not Use Powerful Methods. His Flexible And Prepare You For Fast Passages.
THE COMMENTARY OF THE DUKE OF CHOU:
Line 2: With The Right Companions, You Can Reach Almost Everything
You're both right. People need to make a living - being a philanthropist pays badly by definition. On the other hand, the people who pay are the people who set your agenda - and you are essentially working for the boss. If the open part is the only thing you're interested in, that is ok. Me, however, have some other motivations. One of them is the ability to set my agenda - as an individual or as a group - based on technical merits and such, not based on the agenda by big corporations and stock holders.
The problem is when Sun etc. start paying, the pool of available programmers decreases for other projects, and big corporations start setting the agenda of the open source community. If I were Microsoft or Google (summer of code), this sounds like a good strategy... just hand out some cash to the communities which don't threaten you in any way, grow them, and thus minimize the communities which might threaten you.
Ford Prefect, talking to Arthur Dent about an immense robot that came from a flying saucer (destroying a huge area including Harrods), and said "Take me to your Lizard.":
..."
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and
coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced
down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so
straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders
are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the
people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse,
"why don't people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got
the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government
they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they
want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong
lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
Any defining theories about UFO's and Loch Ness to close? PS: time to visit the shrink, buddy.
Wow, you did so well until the crop circle bit. There's something full of joy, sad, and disturbing at the same time about denying fine people like Doug Bower and Dave Chorley their hoax, and I applaud you for it, sir.
>tell me why Google should ignore criminal abuse of its networks and services
According to which final ruling? Innocent unless proven guilty.
I haven't heart the defense yet. Tell me why Google should be on the prosecutors side. This is Google taking a stand, instead of Google letting the judge make a stand first with a final ruling. He's probably guilty - which is what leads to emotional decisions like this, but I don't think you fully appreciate the glide path here. Are the commercial employees of Google from now on deciding which cases they will decide guilty or no guilty themselves, and which they'll leave to a final ruling by a judge?
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Everything indicates the rocks are moved by humans. It's an attempt to create a misery, like Loch Ness or the grain circles. Each article about the rocks states, just as with the grain circles, that there was no evidence of human activity - while you can easily walk around without leaving trails, especially behind the rocks, and if you leave tails there you can clear them. Rather suspicious how easily it is dismissed. What did Sherlock say about elimitating the impossible? The sliding rocks leaves mud at he sides of the trail in many pictures, up to an inch high or so. With the required forces of wind or water, this would have been wiped away. The sliding rocks pushes into the ground in many pictures, evidence of much frictional forces at work. We can eliminate ice and sliding. We have eliminated the elements. What we can't eliminate is some guys pushing the rocks forward deep in the night and wiping any footsteps - if their weight leaves any at all to start of with. We have eliminated the impossible, so what remains is the only possible option: humans moved the rocks.
One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living. Anywhere it can get some kind of a grip, whether it's the in toxicating seas of Santraginus V, where the fish never seem to care whatever the heck kind of direction they swim in, the fire storms of Frastra where, they say, life begins at 40,000 degrees, or just burrowing around in the lower intestine of a rat for the sheer unadulterated hell of it, life will always find a way of hanging on in somewhere.
It will even live in New York, though it's hard to know why. In the winter time the temperature falls well below the legal minimum, or rather it would do if anybody had the common sense to set a legal minimum. The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
In the summer it's too darn hot. It's one thing to be the sort of life form that thrives on heat and finds, as the Frastrans do, that the temperature range between 40,000 and 40,004 is very equable, but it's quite another to be the sort of animal that has to wrap itself up in lots of other animals at one point in your planet's orbit, and then find, half an orbit later, that your skin's bubbling.
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It does. And with "academic achievements" they not only mean technical intelligence, they also mean "submissive qualities". A young Bill Gates or Larry Ellison will not be hired. They worked their way up outside the box. Google does not want people who think outside the box, and they are not looking for them, presumably because they are a threat to them or they are just looking for middle management. So they are looking for middle management with no chance, will or ability to develop their careers beyond that. Imagine what a thrill it must be to work there as an engineer. Direct lines up have been eliminated, and your "boss" is some kid who does not develop but does like to tell you how it all should be done, based on experiences gained by tracking sub-$100 dollar techno toys and being called brainiacs. I'm not sure what's worse. The hell of middle management I've experienced throughout my working life (non-talented thirty somethings who got into middle management because they have no skills at producing nor running a company), or the hell of roller-bladed smugness. On the upside, it all does not matter. Who cares how the ride of an advertisement company will turn out. The first and last things of creativity of brilliance were simplicity and page rank, and simplicity has been thrown overboard since they went public and require more page views and a diversity of services in order to place more ads.
Trivia for nerds, but no news. In fact, this link has been submitted a dozen times to sites such as digg and reddit. Despite the fact it is definitely not news. But don't let that stop you from posting all kinds of interesting articles from wikipedia. After all, there is no wikipedia site people can go to and read trivia. Oh wait..