That's only a reduction of a very small fraction of 1%. Absolutely negligible. It's about as effective as going to a regional flood, taking away a bucket of water and saying "there, I fixed it."
So regional floods are about the equivalent of 150 buckets of water?
And that's not to mention the literally thousands of jobs he would be cutting to serve his agenda.
I'm surprised you don't see the issue in this statement.
Generally, tax funded jobs are not jobs that you should want to preserve. If tax funded jobs are such a good idea, why not have full employment now, having the federal government hire all of the unemployed? Simply raise the tax rate to cover it.
See the issue there?
Tax-funded jobs should be the rare exception, where private industry is less efficient or unmotivated to serve the same function. If we cut the federal labor force dramatically, and cut the federal tax rate, there would be plenty of demand and cash to support these people in "real" jobs.
WARNING TO MOTORISTS: Do not listen to AC/DC while driving, or you might nod off!
OK, now we can make a similar claim about AC/DC music as this one: "The eight-minute track is so effective at inducing sleep, motorists have now been warned they should not listen to it while driving."
What exactly is tagging? I hear it mentioned but not being on Facebook I can only guess what it is. Ie, someone puts a picture on their site and captions it as "Me and Bob and Susan in Yosemite". Why would Bob and Susan get spam when this happens?
Then Fred sends Bob a note saying "What the heck are you doing with my wife, Susan?" And George sends Bob a note saying "I saw you with Susan. Need a divorce lawyer, Bob?" and Harry sends Bob a note saying "Bob, you're fired. You shouldn't have called in sick."
And to clarify, the tagging is marking people in photos, not just captioning them. You mark the part of the photo that the person is in. And then you designate the person by specific ID. So then, as Bob's future employer, I can check on Bob, and see all the photos of Bob, one after another, that were posted by other people.
Here's the "discomforting" video. Keep in mind he's not just some random attendee to that ICANN conference - he was the friggin' chairman of the board, arriving in the least subtle way possible. And now he's bothered that some fan noticed...
... and it's only been viewed 571 times in five years!
Since this guy is apparently some kind of celebrity
Sounds like you don't know who Vint Cerf is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf (born June 23, 1943) is an American computer scientist, who is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet"...
Timeline check: I started working on my first HP computer in 1975. I didn't see a LaserJet until 1984.
Now, if you had said lab devices, then calculators, then mini-computers, then personal computers, then printers, then network management software, then consulting, you might have had a point.
I was thinking the same thing. GP was insightful, but transistors did follow the same path as their vacuum tube ancestors. Likewise, for years, it seems we have assumed that von Neumann architecture is the only way to design working systems.
If the original computers had been designed by biologists instead of electrical engineers, I'm sure we'd have more of a DNA-style model, where code and data are merged onto a very simple structure to produce highly complex results. (See Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" for tons of examples of complex results coming from simple structures.)
...over a decade before the term Cloud was even coined.
You mean over a decade before you heard the term?
Cmon! HP was using the term Cloud five years before "America Online" existed in 1991.
Just because your expertise doesn't extend back before you got that first AOL floppy and went online to type "a/s/l?", it doesn't mean it didn't happen.
As an owner of a software development company, I would LOVE for our team to use a more structured, process-oriented approach. Management support and financial support aren't the issue at my company. It's finding developers who have experience in such tools and processes, and having them embrace such methods.
Sometimes management KNOWS these things have payback, but can't figure out a way to kick-start these processes. Slashdotters frequently make fun of "management speak", and when I start preaching the benefits of regression testing, unit testing, and version control to my team, I see the Dogbert eyeroll, as if I'm the PHB.
So if you have the skills and experience to help your team implement such processes and tools, by all means, do it! Especially if you believe in the processes and tools. Or come work for me, and help me implement such tools and processes.
Then again, recognize that you need to "smart size" these things. Too much process can mean death to a small company.
God Forbid, please do not use the Facebook comment system, like TechCrunch did. I've never been back.
You might consider adding avatars / gravatars next to people's comments. And turning it into more of a social site. I wouldn't mind "following" the insightful people. (I know you have some social features of the site, but I don't think they are well integrated, or used very often.)
You are taking something of actual monetary value away from them and I can imagine at some point, especially in this economy, you will run across somebody that was expecting the credits to be there. Considering your license plate is recorded at the pump, in addition to probably using a payment method that can be tracked, not a good idea to do something that could be a misdemeanor at best, and at worst used with some trumped up interpretations to label you as a hacker and turn it into a felony.
You are making the assumption that I do this. There's a big difference between laughing at the security of these cards, and succumbing to the temptation of stealing money from someone.
Sounds like it's time to create a cookie-swapping service. Install this Firefox plug-in, and your facebook "logged out" cookie will be replaced by a random person's. Then go ahead and "like" whatever sites you want.
I trade my "frequent shopper" cards with people all the time. And the ones that give you a discount on gas? It ends up you can key in a phone number at the gas pump. So pick a random phone number, or a phone number of your arch-enemy, and get a gas discount! (shhh don't tell!)
Johnny was a scientist, but Johnny is no more. For what Johnny thought was H20, was H2SO4.
H20 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
H20 (H twenty) may refer to :
British National Vegetation Classification
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (spelled with a zero), the seventh film in the Halloween series
HMS H20, a World War I British Royal Navy H class submarine
Nissan H20, an engine
and also :
Iridocyclitis ICD-10 code
[edit] See also
H2O (disambiguation), the molecular formula for water used in a number of items
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That's only a reduction of a very small fraction of 1%. Absolutely negligible. It's about as effective as going to a regional flood, taking away a bucket of water and saying "there, I fixed it."
So regional floods are about the equivalent of 150 buckets of water?
I'm surprised you don't see the issue in this statement.
Generally, tax funded jobs are not jobs that you should want to preserve. If tax funded jobs are such a good idea, why not have full employment now, having the federal government hire all of the unemployed? Simply raise the tax rate to cover it.
See the issue there?
Tax-funded jobs should be the rare exception, where private industry is less efficient or unmotivated to serve the same function. If we cut the federal labor force dramatically, and cut the federal tax rate, there would be plenty of demand and cash to support these people in "real" jobs.
No more warnings about hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis.
Watch out for hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis.
(Please read this daily. Thank you.)
WARNING TO MOTORISTS: Do not listen to AC/DC while driving, or you might nod off!
OK, now we can make a similar claim about AC/DC music as this one:
"The eight-minute track is so effective at inducing sleep, motorists have now been warned they should not listen to it while driving."
As a scientist, don't author your paper with the font set to Comic Sans.
But doesn't the term "Comic Sans" roughly mean "Without Humor" or "Not Funny" ?
Sounds perfect for a technical paper.
For those weak on Esperanto, "Kiam Kaj Kiel Multa" means When and how much!
But more importantly, what does it mean for those strong on Esperanto?
RIM is in trouble too, let's get up and help them out as well.
Aren't they too big to fail? Can't we get some large government to bail them out? Canada???
I wonder, re we going to see a LibreSQL sometime soon?
I'm not comfortable with the Oracle / MySQL direction.
What exactly is tagging? I hear it mentioned but not being on Facebook I can only guess what it is. Ie, someone puts a picture on their site and captions it as "Me and Bob and Susan in Yosemite". Why would Bob and Susan get spam when this happens?
Then Fred sends Bob a note saying "What the heck are you doing with my wife, Susan?"
And George sends Bob a note saying "I saw you with Susan. Need a divorce lawyer, Bob?"
and Harry sends Bob a note saying "Bob, you're fired. You shouldn't have called in sick."
And to clarify, the tagging is marking people in photos, not just captioning them. You mark the part of the photo that the person is in. And then you designate the person by specific ID. So then, as Bob's future employer, I can check on Bob, and see all the photos of Bob, one after another, that were posted by other people.
It's more of a privacy issue than a spam issue.
Here's the "discomforting" video. Keep in mind he's not just some random attendee to that ICANN conference - he was the friggin' chairman of the board, arriving in the least subtle way possible. And now he's bothered that some fan noticed...
... and it's only been viewed 571 times in five years!
Sounds like you don't know who Vint Cerf is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf
Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf (born June 23, 1943) is an American computer scientist, who is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet"...
Surely you've heard of "Cerfing the Internet".
They got into printers. then computers.
Timeline check: I started working on my first HP computer in 1975. I didn't see a LaserJet until 1984.
Now, if you had said lab devices, then calculators, then mini-computers, then personal computers, then printers, then network management software, then consulting, you might have had a point.
I totally forgot about the strip clubs. Surely that's the RSA sales reps' secret.
only if the sales rep's name is Victoria.
I was thinking the same thing. GP was insightful, but transistors did follow the same path as their vacuum tube ancestors. Likewise, for years, it seems we have assumed that von Neumann architecture is the only way to design working systems.
If the original computers had been designed by biologists instead of electrical engineers, I'm sure we'd have more of a DNA-style model, where code and data are merged onto a very simple structure to produce highly complex results. (See Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" for tons of examples of complex results coming from simple structures.)
You mean over a decade before you heard the term?
Cmon! HP was using the term Cloud five years before "America Online" existed in 1991.
Just because your expertise doesn't extend back before you got that first AOL floppy and went online to type "a/s/l?", it doesn't mean it didn't happen.
I disagree.
As an owner of a software development company, I would LOVE for our team to use a more structured, process-oriented approach. Management support and financial support aren't the issue at my company. It's finding developers who have experience in such tools and processes, and having them embrace such methods.
Sometimes management KNOWS these things have payback, but can't figure out a way to kick-start these processes. Slashdotters frequently make fun of "management speak", and when I start preaching the benefits of regression testing, unit testing, and version control to my team, I see the Dogbert eyeroll, as if I'm the PHB.
So if you have the skills and experience to help your team implement such processes and tools, by all means, do it! Especially if you believe in the processes and tools. Or come work for me, and help me implement such tools and processes.
Then again, recognize that you need to "smart size" these things. Too much process can mean death to a small company.
cmon dude, it was obi wan in the original Star Wars
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/quotes?qt=qt0440735
Name one apple product that has crashed once a week or once a month. Just one.
Quicktime
piece of crap
Name one apple product that has crashed once a week or once a month. Just one.
itunes
piece of crap
God Forbid, please do not use the Facebook comment system, like TechCrunch did.
I've never been back.
You might consider adding avatars / gravatars next to people's comments. And turning it into more of a social site. I wouldn't mind "following" the insightful people. (I know you have some social features of the site, but I don't think they are well integrated, or used very often.)
Consider using part of the page for quick, 140-character comments.
I'd call them Tweets, but it's probably trademarked.
Dots? Sladots? Slots?
You are taking something of actual monetary value away from them and I can imagine at some point, especially in this economy, you will run across somebody that was expecting the credits to be there. Considering your license plate is recorded at the pump, in addition to probably using a payment method that can be tracked, not a good idea to do something that could be a misdemeanor at best, and at worst used with some trumped up interpretations to label you as a hacker and turn it into a felony.
You are making the assumption that I do this. There's a big difference between laughing at the security of these cards, and succumbing to the temptation of stealing money from someone.
Sounds like it's time to create a cookie-swapping service. Install this Firefox plug-in, and your facebook "logged out" cookie will be replaced by a random person's. Then go ahead and "like" whatever sites you want.
I trade my "frequent shopper" cards with people all the time. And the ones that give you a discount on gas? It ends up you can key in a phone number at the gas pump. So pick a random phone number, or a phone number of your arch-enemy, and get a gas discount! (shhh don't tell!)
"There may be 15 billion warm, Earth-sized worlds in our galaxy alone."
This is provably wrong.
We're here, so clearly they are not alone.
Johnny was a scientist,
but Johnny is no more.
For what Johnny thought was H20,
was H2SO4.
H20
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
H20 (H twenty) may refer to :
British National Vegetation Classification
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (spelled with a zero), the seventh film in the Halloween series
HMS H20, a World War I British Royal Navy H class submarine
Nissan H20, an engine
and also :
Iridocyclitis ICD-10 code
[edit] See also
H2O (disambiguation), the molecular formula for water used in a number of items