I think it's important not to pretend like she was the only one that could have passed that test at age 9 or done those other things. It's really tempting for people to lose sight of the fact that there's at least a couple percent of the population that could have done that at that age, and a larger portion that could have done the rest.
Remember this is the same site where a lot of people were bad mouthing Ritchie for allegedly having less impact than Jobs.
You make it sound like she was the only one that could have passed that test at age 9. I had a friend who at age 9 had all the knowledge necessary, but didn't get the cert. The main reason being that was in the '80s and I'm not even sure that the cert existed at the time. Personally, I could have passed it easily by age 11, but mostly because that's largely because up until then the only computers I had access to were Apples.
And he was hardly the only one at that point who could have done it, from what I understand his level of knowledge was fairly common in Korea at that time.
The point is that under this situation that large slave owner is still a slave owner. Slavery is a pretty right or wrong issue, either you have slaves or you don't. Treating slaves poorly is just a bad business decision the same way that bashing the copy machine is. In the end people are still being treated like property.
If he can't provide a theoretical explanation, don't you think that suggests that he shouldn't be selling a device which produces tritium those quantities? Furthermore don't you think that it's somewhat implausible that such a person was able to succeed where others have failed? Sometimes it does happen, but the more technologically sophisticated the problem and the more minds working on it, the less likely it is to be accomplished.
Probably similar to the way that they used to have to prepare samples for the electron microscope, at least to the point of putting it into a special chamber which in this case would be sound proofed. Those noises are pretty easy to cancel out typically and quite well understood at this point.
Indeed, and I have a feeling that he doesn't have any patents on it either. Those sorts of black box novelty items usually end up about as well as the Mechanical Turk.
Hopefully it's a hoax, fusion is safer than fission, but I'm still not sure how comfortable I would be with a device that can't be taken apart and where the inventor won't tell me how it works being anywhere near me. I have a feeling that I'm not the only one.
Unless I'm mistaken about that, it's been a while since I read up on cold fusion and I suppose this novel approach deviates from previous attempts. Personally, I'm not buying it.
It's not disingenuous. It's not really productive if you end up having to do things over because you ignored an email that changed the course of the work. And there's a hell of a lot more bandwidth for in person communication than there is for either email or phone conversations. If you've found otherwise then chances are you were doing something horribly, horribly wrong.
Personally, I like working alone, but it really is that much faster if you've got somebody else in the room to do business with.
I'm not sure it's really any less interesting than the Linux kernel going into a new version or OSX or Windows or whatever.
They've had support for Intel video cards forever, it's a shame though that Intel video cards have sucked since forever. I assume you mean for whatever particular Intel GPU you're using. I think the last decent Intel video card I had had a whopping 2mb of video RAM.
That's a slippery slope argument, it could prove to be true, however there's nothing inherent about our current situation that suggest that it will continue unchecked for 10, 20 or more years. Eventually people will forget why it is that we're putting up with this bullshit. Starting in 2019 we'll start to have voters who were born after 9/11 and even those who were born as late as 1997 are probably not going to be emotionally wrapped up in it the way that people of our age or older are.
Think about Pearl Harbor, I'm guessing you don't really relate to it any better than I do, for us it's essentially just a historical fact.
We haven't reached that point yet, but if people in general continue to accept the intrusions as necessary, I'm not sure what short of civil war will stop it.
Indeed, I remember an employer a while back that was willing to pay for the bare minimum solution, then cut it back after a while. Needless to say that was a very frustrating place to work if you had any sort of work ethic whatsoever as you could never actually accomplish anything.
That's doubtless the main reason, but when it comes down to it, it takes a lot longer to get anything done at home if you actually know how to work. Lately, I've been working internationally and it takes forever to do a back and forth that would take less than 5 minutes at an office.
Even locally you're looking at a time multiplier, unless of course you shut off the email and focus on work, and even then it means that if something doesn't come in just before one checks email it can take a while to learn about it.
There aren't any credible reasons to believe that aspartame causes MS. If that were the case you wouldn't expect the highest rate of MS in the world to be in Seattle where folks tend to be fairly paranoid about aspartame and artificial sweeteners in general.
Not to mention the fact that HR is typically where the first few rounds of screening go and they're precisely the sorts of people that engage in those sorts of behaviors.
You mean except that none of those things turns a profit and that it's the ad and search businesses that are where the potential violations that people care about are allegedly being committed. Splitting them up like that would be worse than doing nothing.
Bullshit. The President has a surprising amount of control over the bureaucracy. This is why you see differing priorities for government agencies under different Presidents. During the Bush administration there was little if any effort by the federal government to deal with these issues as under that administration it was believed that no business could grow too large and that there would always be benefits from mergers.
I believe it refers to the restrictions that manufacturers have to agree to in order to be allowed to use the Marketplace. I'm not sure of all the specifics, but the phones have to comply to a set of conditions otherwise they aren't allowed to participate in the Marketplace.
I can't comment on the merit or lack thereof as I'm not really sure what precisely the issue there is. But I suspect it has to do with the defaults.
Well no, Google being investigated for antitrust regulations was bound to happen the moment a Democrat was elected President. The real question is what precisely they decide to do about it. As has been mentioned, they can't break the company up, doing so would be nonsensical compared with breaking up a company that has a physical presence or exists in multiple markets making money.
They'll ultimately almost certainly be stuck with monitoring Google for some period of time and banning a small number of practices. Ultimately it's not likely to change much and that's assuming that the agencies decide to move forward with enforcement which they might not.
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I've noticed that happening a lot lately, comments that aren't snarky, off topic or even wrong being modded down because some fanboy doesn't like it.
I think it's important not to pretend like she was the only one that could have passed that test at age 9 or done those other things. It's really tempting for people to lose sight of the fact that there's at least a couple percent of the population that could have done that at that age, and a larger portion that could have done the rest.
Remember this is the same site where a lot of people were bad mouthing Ritchie for allegedly having less impact than Jobs.
You make it sound like she was the only one that could have passed that test at age 9. I had a friend who at age 9 had all the knowledge necessary, but didn't get the cert. The main reason being that was in the '80s and I'm not even sure that the cert existed at the time. Personally, I could have passed it easily by age 11, but mostly because that's largely because up until then the only computers I had access to were Apples.
And he was hardly the only one at that point who could have done it, from what I understand his level of knowledge was fairly common in Korea at that time.
Since when does programming qualify one to design a house?
The OP should quit his job.
The point is that under this situation that large slave owner is still a slave owner. Slavery is a pretty right or wrong issue, either you have slaves or you don't. Treating slaves poorly is just a bad business decision the same way that bashing the copy machine is. In the end people are still being treated like property.
If he can't provide a theoretical explanation, don't you think that suggests that he shouldn't be selling a device which produces tritium those quantities? Furthermore don't you think that it's somewhat implausible that such a person was able to succeed where others have failed? Sometimes it does happen, but the more technologically sophisticated the problem and the more minds working on it, the less likely it is to be accomplished.
Probably similar to the way that they used to have to prepare samples for the electron microscope, at least to the point of putting it into a special chamber which in this case would be sound proofed. Those noises are pretty easy to cancel out typically and quite well understood at this point.
Indeed, and I have a feeling that he doesn't have any patents on it either. Those sorts of black box novelty items usually end up about as well as the Mechanical Turk.
Hopefully it's a hoax, fusion is safer than fission, but I'm still not sure how comfortable I would be with a device that can't be taken apart and where the inventor won't tell me how it works being anywhere near me. I have a feeling that I'm not the only one.
Unless I'm mistaken about that, it's been a while since I read up on cold fusion and I suppose this novel approach deviates from previous attempts. Personally, I'm not buying it.
It's not disingenuous. It's not really productive if you end up having to do things over because you ignored an email that changed the course of the work. And there's a hell of a lot more bandwidth for in person communication than there is for either email or phone conversations. If you've found otherwise then chances are you were doing something horribly, horribly wrong.
Personally, I like working alone, but it really is that much faster if you've got somebody else in the room to do business with.
People had jobs under British rule. I think I read about what happened in history class...
I'm not sure it's really any less interesting than the Linux kernel going into a new version or OSX or Windows or whatever.
They've had support for Intel video cards forever, it's a shame though that Intel video cards have sucked since forever. I assume you mean for whatever particular Intel GPU you're using. I think the last decent Intel video card I had had a whopping 2mb of video RAM.
That's a slippery slope argument, it could prove to be true, however there's nothing inherent about our current situation that suggest that it will continue unchecked for 10, 20 or more years. Eventually people will forget why it is that we're putting up with this bullshit. Starting in 2019 we'll start to have voters who were born after 9/11 and even those who were born as late as 1997 are probably not going to be emotionally wrapped up in it the way that people of our age or older are.
Think about Pearl Harbor, I'm guessing you don't really relate to it any better than I do, for us it's essentially just a historical fact.
We haven't reached that point yet, but if people in general continue to accept the intrusions as necessary, I'm not sure what short of civil war will stop it.
Indeed, I remember an employer a while back that was willing to pay for the bare minimum solution, then cut it back after a while. Needless to say that was a very frustrating place to work if you had any sort of work ethic whatsoever as you could never actually accomplish anything.
That's doubtless the main reason, but when it comes down to it, it takes a lot longer to get anything done at home if you actually know how to work. Lately, I've been working internationally and it takes forever to do a back and forth that would take less than 5 minutes at an office.
Even locally you're looking at a time multiplier, unless of course you shut off the email and focus on work, and even then it means that if something doesn't come in just before one checks email it can take a while to learn about it.
There aren't any credible reasons to believe that aspartame causes MS. If that were the case you wouldn't expect the highest rate of MS in the world to be in Seattle where folks tend to be fairly paranoid about aspartame and artificial sweeteners in general.
I hate to break it to you, but he has Parkinson's, not MS.
Not to mention the fact that HR is typically where the first few rounds of screening go and they're precisely the sorts of people that engage in those sorts of behaviors.
They're often hard to find because MBAs have crowded them out. Not to mention the hiring from outside and HR trolls.
You mean except that none of those things turns a profit and that it's the ad and search businesses that are where the potential violations that people care about are allegedly being committed. Splitting them up like that would be worse than doing nothing.
Bullshit. The President has a surprising amount of control over the bureaucracy. This is why you see differing priorities for government agencies under different Presidents. During the Bush administration there was little if any effort by the federal government to deal with these issues as under that administration it was believed that no business could grow too large and that there would always be benefits from mergers.
I believe it refers to the restrictions that manufacturers have to agree to in order to be allowed to use the Marketplace. I'm not sure of all the specifics, but the phones have to comply to a set of conditions otherwise they aren't allowed to participate in the Marketplace.
I can't comment on the merit or lack thereof as I'm not really sure what precisely the issue there is. But I suspect it has to do with the defaults.
Well no, Google being investigated for antitrust regulations was bound to happen the moment a Democrat was elected President. The real question is what precisely they decide to do about it. As has been mentioned, they can't break the company up, doing so would be nonsensical compared with breaking up a company that has a physical presence or exists in multiple markets making money.
They'll ultimately almost certainly be stuck with monitoring Google for some period of time and banning a small number of practices. Ultimately it's not likely to change much and that's assuming that the agencies decide to move forward with enforcement which they might not.