"Also, I doubt these scans have any erotic effect on even the most desperate pedophile except for those with some freaky scanner fetish."
I think you badly underestimate how low even the 'least desperate' pedophile is.
So, while I get your point, starting out with statements about how non-disgusting pedophiles are won't help your cause at all. They are even less effective than trying to say these pictures would never get into the wrong hands or that cops and government officials are never corrupt or greedy.
While Newzbin does do automatic indexing, it also does manual indexing using human 'editors'. They are responsible for categorizing and labeling things.
Those people you describe -can't- form a team. The question asked was how to form a team. Taking people that are incapable of forming a team and trying to use them as a reason not to bother trying is silly, at best.
No, it needs to be taken a step further. They need facetime -in the office-. They need to work together and discuss things constantly if you want them to feel like a team. People you only see at the company picnic are just people, not friends or even really co-workers.
But the company probably doesn't want to pay for them to talk to each other. They would rather pay them to be productive instead. You'll have a hard time making this actually happen.
"CPR is a perfect example. In Florida for instance, if someone dies in front of you and CPR had a good chance of saving them, don't let anyone find out you are CPR certified (which every highschool student is at some point) as you will be punished."
Bullshit. I went to highschool in Florida, and still live there, and I don't know -anyone- who is certified that didn't have a job as a lifeguard at some point.
Actually, since the save games are stored remotely, it's going to require way more elaborate hacks to get these running offline. I have full confidence that it will be done, but at the very least, it's going to give games a launch window that is free of piracy.
On the other hand, this pretty much guarantees that I'll never buy another Ubisoft PC game again. While I am usually hooked to the net, it's kind of flakey at times and I hate the idea of not being able to back up my save games or play on my laptop, which usually isn't connected to the net to save battery power.
Congratulations, Ubi... You've lost yet another customer.
The same way you do in every other technical profession: Volunteering, working for yourself on pet projects, internships and companies willing to hire the inexperienced for very little money.
If a doctor gets an emergency call, he doesn't stand in line at McDonald's while he's taking it. He seeks out somewhere quieter and out of the way where he can think.
Feel free to interrupt them without fear of anyone dying over it.
Oh man, I do this in the office all the time. Sometimes on purpose, sometimes by accident. I never get beyond a few lines, though. It's always good for an office laugh, though.
But 3 minutes... Has it occurred to you that 3 minutes of your intro when talking to someone is complete bullshit? I hate the formalities people use when approaching you... How are you? Weather's nice, blah blah blah... Cut to the chase. I'm not so lazy that I need you to help me waste time. And that goes doubly so on a cellphone.
And just like my filter, the filter this company has created will cause a lot of false positives. At work, we send a lot of internal mail that's all in about the same format because it's easiest to read that way. It's a lot more formalized than spam is, so it would definitely be caught first.
You say 'linux community' like it's a corporation. The 'linux community' doesn't have an opinion on -anything-. Individual members of the community have the full range of opinions.
"5) Touch input. While we're at it. Touch input becomes so popular in cellphones that EVERYTHING has to be touch input now. In case you didn't notice: It's popular because you have the input device in your palm. Now put it upright like a computer screen and tell me how convenient, comfortable or accurate it is. Not to mention that you're covering the info you try to access with your fingers, which means that you will have to lift your hand to see what you're doing. It's comfortable for quick input, but not for constant use."
You make a good point with most of it, but this one is wrong. When I bought my tablet, I didn't expect to use the touchscreen in laptop-form at all. Instead, what I find now is that I have a tendency to try to push 'Okay' buttons and close windows on normal LCDs by touching the screen. Obviously I've found it to be a lot easier and more intuitive to touch it than use the mouse, despite have worked with mice for so many years. I can hear you saying 'Okay, I said "for quick input". The thing is, interfaces have to be designed for how they get their input. Most of ours are designed with kb/mouse input in mind, but they could easily be designed with touch-input in mind and avoid the idiotic 'fingers are blocking data' problems.
We've a long way to go, but that's the direction we're headed.
You mean $9+the-cost-of-a-computer more. The boogie thing is completely self-contained. Plus, you can see what you're drawing -where- you're drawing. With a cheap digitizer for the computer, you have to watch the computer's screen and draw somewhere else. Yes, people do it all the time, but there's a reason people are willing to spend thousands on a Cintiq instead of pay 1/10th as much for just a regular digitizer.
And anything that dares to contradict the AGW-believers is treated with derision and actively attacked, instead of investigated. You know, exactly the opposite of science.
Perhaps that is the excuse that management gave them instead of 'You people are hopeless programmers and there's no way this project will make it, so we're cancelling it.'
I was wondering if anyone else saw the real world analog... Magazines are a good point, but what about newspapers? WAY more people read the headlines on the newspaper and then don't buy it. It's ridiculous to think that 'only 44%' is a bad thing.
I upgraded my DIR655 to the latest and started having a lot of trouble. Then I turned off the internal DNS server and POOF, everything was great again. if you hvae trouble after the upgrade that is obviously coming, put that on your list of things to try when you have weird issues.
This isn't about carrot and stick. The people that discovered this get nothing from it. They aren't the owners of the company, they don't work for the company, and they probably don't even use the products in question.
In fact, the only thing these people -do- get is recognition that they found some serious flaws in other peoples' stuff. And they get that whether they work with the companies or not. (Sadly, they get -far- more attention if they don't work with the companies, so that gives them a push towards non-disclosure.)
I've noticed that my favorite theatre quite often has closed captioned versions of movies... At least the big ones. It probably wouldn't hurt to ask if your local theatres would consider the same... You never know, there might be bigger demand for it than they realize, and if nobody asks, they'll never know.
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"Also, I doubt these scans have any erotic effect on even the most desperate pedophile except for those with some freaky scanner fetish."
I think you badly underestimate how low even the 'least desperate' pedophile is.
So, while I get your point, starting out with statements about how non-disgusting pedophiles are won't help your cause at all. They are even less effective than trying to say these pictures would never get into the wrong hands or that cops and government officials are never corrupt or greedy.
While Newzbin does do automatic indexing, it also does manual indexing using human 'editors'. They are responsible for categorizing and labeling things.
Those people you describe -can't- form a team. The question asked was how to form a team. Taking people that are incapable of forming a team and trying to use them as a reason not to bother trying is silly, at best.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_gotten_correct_grammar
Can't you?
No, it needs to be taken a step further. They need facetime -in the office-. They need to work together and discuss things constantly if you want them to feel like a team. People you only see at the company picnic are just people, not friends or even really co-workers.
But the company probably doesn't want to pay for them to talk to each other. They would rather pay them to be productive instead. You'll have a hard time making this actually happen.
"CPR is a perfect example. In Florida for instance, if someone dies in front of you and CPR had a good chance of saving them, don't let anyone find out you are CPR certified (which every highschool student is at some point) as you will be punished."
Bullshit. I went to highschool in Florida, and still live there, and I don't know -anyone- who is certified that didn't have a job as a lifeguard at some point.
I agree with Rasperin. Make it in the Objection! position, or possible to put in that position, and I'm game for one. Weird hairstyle is optional.
This will completely destroy IP rotation aka load balancing. I hope they aren't allowed to do it.
Actually, since the save games are stored remotely, it's going to require way more elaborate hacks to get these running offline. I have full confidence that it will be done, but at the very least, it's going to give games a launch window that is free of piracy.
On the other hand, this pretty much guarantees that I'll never buy another Ubisoft PC game again. While I am usually hooked to the net, it's kind of flakey at times and I hate the idea of not being able to back up my save games or play on my laptop, which usually isn't connected to the net to save battery power.
Congratulations, Ubi... You've lost yet another customer.
The same way you do in every other technical profession: Volunteering, working for yourself on pet projects, internships and companies willing to hire the inexperienced for very little money.
If a doctor gets an emergency call, he doesn't stand in line at McDonald's while he's taking it. He seeks out somewhere quieter and out of the way where he can think.
Feel free to interrupt them without fear of anyone dying over it.
Oh man, I do this in the office all the time. Sometimes on purpose, sometimes by accident. I never get beyond a few lines, though. It's always good for an office laugh, though.
But 3 minutes... Has it occurred to you that 3 minutes of your intro when talking to someone is complete bullshit? I hate the formalities people use when approaching you... How are you? Weather's nice, blah blah blah... Cut to the chase. I'm not so lazy that I need you to help me waste time. And that goes doubly so on a cellphone.
I have the perfect spam filter:
Block everything!
100% of spam gets blocked.
And just like my filter, the filter this company has created will cause a lot of false positives. At work, we send a lot of internal mail that's all in about the same format because it's easiest to read that way. It's a lot more formalized than spam is, so it would definitely be caught first.
You say 'linux community' like it's a corporation. The 'linux community' doesn't have an opinion on -anything-. Individual members of the community have the full range of opinions.
"5) Touch input. While we're at it. Touch input becomes so popular in cellphones that EVERYTHING has to be touch input now. In case you didn't notice: It's popular because you have the input device in your palm. Now put it upright like a computer screen and tell me how convenient, comfortable or accurate it is. Not to mention that you're covering the info you try to access with your fingers, which means that you will have to lift your hand to see what you're doing. It's comfortable for quick input, but not for constant use."
You make a good point with most of it, but this one is wrong. When I bought my tablet, I didn't expect to use the touchscreen in laptop-form at all. Instead, what I find now is that I have a tendency to try to push 'Okay' buttons and close windows on normal LCDs by touching the screen. Obviously I've found it to be a lot easier and more intuitive to touch it than use the mouse, despite have worked with mice for so many years. I can hear you saying 'Okay, I said "for quick input". The thing is, interfaces have to be designed for how they get their input. Most of ours are designed with kb/mouse input in mind, but they could easily be designed with touch-input in mind and avoid the idiotic 'fingers are blocking data' problems.
We've a long way to go, but that's the direction we're headed.
You mean $9+the-cost-of-a-computer more. The boogie thing is completely self-contained. Plus, you can see what you're drawing -where- you're drawing. With a cheap digitizer for the computer, you have to watch the computer's screen and draw somewhere else. Yes, people do it all the time, but there's a reason people are willing to spend thousands on a Cintiq instead of pay 1/10th as much for just a regular digitizer.
And anything that dares to contradict the AGW-believers is treated with derision and actively attacked, instead of investigated. You know, exactly the opposite of science.
Perhaps that is the excuse that management gave them instead of 'You people are hopeless programmers and there's no way this project will make it, so we're cancelling it.'
We'll probably never know.
I don't see that option anywhere. Can you elaborate?
I was wondering if anyone else saw the real world analog... Magazines are a good point, but what about newspapers? WAY more people read the headlines on the newspaper and then don't buy it. It's ridiculous to think that 'only 44%' is a bad thing.
Turn off the internal DNS stuff (DNS Forwarding, I think it was called?). That fixed it for me. I was really upset about it until I found that fix.
I upgraded my DIR655 to the latest and started having a lot of trouble. Then I turned off the internal DNS server and POOF, everything was great again. if you hvae trouble after the upgrade that is obviously coming, put that on your list of things to try when you have weird issues.
This isn't about carrot and stick. The people that discovered this get nothing from it. They aren't the owners of the company, they don't work for the company, and they probably don't even use the products in question.
In fact, the only thing these people -do- get is recognition that they found some serious flaws in other peoples' stuff. And they get that whether they work with the companies or not. (Sadly, they get -far- more attention if they don't work with the companies, so that gives them a push towards non-disclosure.)
Actually, he's not. What that statement says is that instead of having The Incident happen, Google is launching an investigation.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/in+lieu+of
Obviously, that's not what is going on because we don't have time travel.
I've noticed that my favorite theatre quite often has closed captioned versions of movies... At least the big ones. It probably wouldn't hurt to ask if your local theatres would consider the same... You never know, there might be bigger demand for it than they realize, and if nobody asks, they'll never know.