If you want to make a strong claim, then link to the "*unambiguously* clear" writing instead of forcing every reader to either take it or leave it at face value or spend the time researching it themselves.
So you're saying that a clogged wifi network causing glitches during the middle of a presentation of product using wifi(which isn't a fault of the product but the network devices) is totally the same thing as a product freezing in the middle of a presentation.
Yes, and I gave examples of why, as a non-fanboy, I'd have cause for concern. I saw the Jobs video and cringed while watching it. Placing the blame on the WiFi devices instead of the product is ridiculous. Do you expect everybody to turn off their device in a crowded area, or do you expect your product to work in such places?
The technician traced the problem to too many wifi users at once which isn't a big deal.
Only if you live inside the reality distortion field. What, you want to use your WiFi at a conference, or a busy place like an airport, or the university cafeteria? You can't, but no big deal. Oh, and you're holding it wrong.
Extremely detailed and extremely broad knowledge of the industry you're in.
Is that why you get these vastly overpaid "superstar" CEOs that move from industry to industry? CEOs are incredibly overpaid for the supply and demand for their position, probably for a few reasons.
One, it's a single position so the company can afford to spend a lot. Two, there's a lot of quid pro quo going on with the foxes guarding the henhouse.
And three, people aren't good judges of how valuable a person really is, along with the psychology that the CEO is an important position, so it must be worth lots and lots of money, instead of trying to do some supply and demand and picking somebody from the ranks of senior management and giving them a decent salary and not an obscene one.
As an example, a level of detail similar to this ad [craigslist.org]. I will admit, I didn't think to state explicitly that the vehicle ran, because I just thought that was assumed for a non-collectible car listed at $1500.
How well a car runs is pretty damn important -- you wouldn't believe the crap people try to sell for $1,500 that doesn't run. When I sold my car on Craigslist I explicitly stated how well it ran, including that it reliably started every time, and also listed a problem it had with shifting.
Yes, one kid asked me stupid questions that had answers listed right in the ad, but most callers were reasonable. I priced it to move and sold it in two days for $700 (this after calling a used car dealer who wouldn't even make me an offer). The car was over 10 years old and I only paid $13k when I bought it, so I was happy.
Craigslist is the quintessential "worse is better" website. It's awful and underfeatured in so many ways, yet at its core it is usable and people flock to it.
what could happen behind a well maintained truck and trailer that could not happen behind a car ?
You shouldn't be following close enough to a car to draft, either. A truck is worse because you can't see past it. It's also worse because it has more mass and will cause more damage.
I read it. Knowing that you're taking a chance, and thinking that looking at the maintenance of the vehicle is going to make it safe deserves special mention on the award.
Did they actually draw blood or require a physical? My friend at the time was going for Top Secret, and they made him take a lie detector test, and if I recall correctly asked some embarrassing sexual questions.
Many years ago I applied for and received "Secret" clearance (long since abandoned). The only thing they did was make me fill out a questionnaire. That's consistent with this story regarding NASA employees.
Damn, you're dumb. If they want to track employees, they'll give you the smartphone as a work phone to carry around if you don't have one. The cost of a phone is peanuts in comparison to employee compensation.
Despite the Dilbert mentality techies like to have about managers, I've known several good managers who were smart people and good at what they did. I've known some bad ones, too, but the same could be said about my tech colleagues.
Enough to be immune to luring away (or bribing) from the competition.
Greed knows no limit. Somebody demanding an $800k per year salary could easily be bribed for a few million if they are prone to being bribed. What's really silly is just how little people can be bribed for, people who could afford the things they are being bribed with.
The CEO of NPR makes $450K/year. The CEO of Unicef makes $473K/year. The CEO of the American Red Cross makes $1M/year. The CEO of the Boys & Girls Club makes $1M. This list could go on.
The list just shows that CEOs are overpaid. Nothing new there. A CEO just needs to be a competent manager, and there are plenty of them around.
I like the pitcher/hitter duel, which I've mentioned several times and is the meat of the game. The other action is fine, too, but it only comes in spurts. While it's true I'm not a current fan, it's not because I didn't give it a try or from lack of understanding.
Compared to most other web development languages/frameworks you know that you can write your entire web app in one language and that if within 1 function you want to persist something to the database and update the webpage DOM you can do that and the opa compiler will handle splitting that out into the client-side and server-side code to accomplish that with the glue to hold them together.
Ah, the "No true Scotsman" fallacy. I followed baseball a fair amount, but gave it up because in the end it was too aggravating.
and so may not have an understanding of it's more subtle elements.
Ah, the argument by authority fallacy. You told me the subtle elements you liked, and I told you I explicitly disliked what appealed to you. It's a difference of opinion.
You don't seem to want that to change so I'll leave you in peace.
Good, because I'm tired of replying to your weak arguments.
Every time the ball misses the strike zone, it comes down to swing/no swing. The call happens several times every inning.
I think you're trying to force a point that isn't relevant. It's perfectly obvious the vast majority of the time when the batter swung or not, and as a critic of the umps, it's not something that bothers me, unlike the nearly constant aggravation of balls and strikes.
Gaming the umpire is really just an extension of the pitcher gaming the batsman. The pitcher wants to catch him looking, so he has to distort his view of the zone.
The umpire is there to enforce the rules, and ideally inserts himself into the game in a 100% correct manner. I like the pitcher/hitter psychological duel. I do not like the umpire getting in the way of that.
You can't get the ump out of it anyway. Baseball is nearly unique in it's reliance on the ump.
Actually, it's just the opposite. Baseball is fairly unique in that you largely can get the ump out of the way, as the pitcher/hitter duel is over 90% of the game, and the vast majority of that is balls and strikes. The other big three sports in the US, basketball, football, and hockey, are high in contact and moving bodies, and it would be much harder to automate them away.
There isn't even a 'standard' field.
I'm only talking about balls and strikes, despite how you keep on wanting to expand beyond that.
It may be why other sports with 'set times' routinely run over but the game that has no theoretical time limit at all can be counted on to get over in 2 1/2 to 3 hours or so the vast majority of the time.
Give me a break. How long the game takes depends on how fast the outs come, and besides that, baseball is notorious for stopping play. I'd be willing to bet the other big three sports in the US are comparable in how much they deviate.
The bad calls stand out because there are so remarkably few of them.
I notice several every inning any time I happen to tune in for a bit. I almost never watch baseball, though, because the pace of the game is slow, and the major compelling factor that would make it tolerable, the pitcher/hitter duel, is ruined by the umpire's inconsistent strike zone.
Beyond the fact that many baseball fans LOVE to disagree with the ump
They'll still be there to call tags and whatnot, just not there to impose themselves on every pitch.
All of that gameplay is lost is a computer and cameras call the balls and strikes.
I don't consider gaming the umpire a good part of the game. The vast majority of baseball comes down to the pitcher/hitter duel, and I'd prefer the true skill of those dynamics to constant interference by umpires. It really kills me when a good pitch is spoiled by a bad call, or vice versa when a good eye by the hitter on a ball is spoiled by the ump.
Beyond that, how will the computer decide if the batsman swung or not? We don't even have official rules for that.
Then let the umpire decide. Unlike balls and strikes, it's a fairly rare call anyways.
I don't think it would really be the same game without the ump making the call.
It would still be baseball, an objectively fairer version of it. But as I said, there's tradition to contend with, and I don't think it'll ever happen.
but like many (most?) other baseball fans, I don't want it affecting the game as it happens.
I'm exactly the opposite. For me the refs in any sport are an annoying distraction when they make wrong calls, and calling of balls and strikes is over 90% of the game in baseball. There's really no reason computers can't take over for balls and strikes except for tradition.
You're nitpicking to a fault. It's like spinning a roulette wheel. We consider it random exactly because it is unpredictable to the players as normally played, but if you had some technology with you, you could predict where the ball was going to land.
China wants North Korea as a buffer between the United States and China, and they also want to avoid a flood of refugees into China. However, China knows that a nuclear attack by North Korea could only be met by complete and utter destruction of the North, and they wouldn't want to engage in a war protecting a nuke-happy regime.
The other part you are missing is that despite how whacky the North Koreans seem, they aren't suicidal and don't want to be demolished. That's why they limit their attacks to provocative strikes when they want attention.
Ideally the author should have exclusive right to distribution of their work.
You state this as if it was some uncontroversial fact in the copyright debate. That's bullshit. Lots of people don't agree with this anti-freedom, artificial scarcity model for intellectual works.
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Don't take my word for it. Research actual facts.
If you want to make a strong claim, then link to the "*unambiguously* clear" writing instead of forcing every reader to either take it or leave it at face value or spend the time researching it themselves.
So you're saying that a clogged wifi network causing glitches during the middle of a presentation of product using wifi(which isn't a fault of the product but the network devices) is totally the same thing as a product freezing in the middle of a presentation.
Yes, and I gave examples of why, as a non-fanboy, I'd have cause for concern. I saw the Jobs video and cringed while watching it. Placing the blame on the WiFi devices instead of the product is ridiculous. Do you expect everybody to turn off their device in a crowded area, or do you expect your product to work in such places?
What world do you live in?
Outside the reality distortion field.
The technician traced the problem to too many wifi users at once which isn't a big deal.
Only if you live inside the reality distortion field. What, you want to use your WiFi at a conference, or a busy place like an airport, or the university cafeteria? You can't, but no big deal. Oh, and you're holding it wrong.
You DO realize that is what you sound like, yes?
You SOUND like a RANTING, unbalanced IDIOT.
If you're going to fucking swear, just swear.
Extremely detailed and extremely broad knowledge of the industry you're in.
Is that why you get these vastly overpaid "superstar" CEOs that move from industry to industry? CEOs are incredibly overpaid for the supply and demand for their position, probably for a few reasons.
One, it's a single position so the company can afford to spend a lot. Two, there's a lot of quid pro quo going on with the foxes guarding the henhouse.
And three, people aren't good judges of how valuable a person really is, along with the psychology that the CEO is an important position, so it must be worth lots and lots of money, instead of trying to do some supply and demand and picking somebody from the ranks of senior management and giving them a decent salary and not an obscene one.
As an example, a level of detail similar to this ad [craigslist.org]. I will admit, I didn't think to state explicitly that the vehicle ran, because I just thought that was assumed for a non-collectible car listed at $1500.
How well a car runs is pretty damn important -- you wouldn't believe the crap people try to sell for $1,500 that doesn't run. When I sold my car on Craigslist I explicitly stated how well it ran, including that it reliably started every time, and also listed a problem it had with shifting.
Yes, one kid asked me stupid questions that had answers listed right in the ad, but most callers were reasonable. I priced it to move and sold it in two days for $700 (this after calling a used car dealer who wouldn't even make me an offer). The car was over 10 years old and I only paid $13k when I bought it, so I was happy.
Craigslist is the quintessential "worse is better" website. It's awful and underfeatured in so many ways, yet at its core it is usable and people flock to it.
what could happen behind a well maintained truck and trailer that could not happen behind a car ?
You shouldn't be following close enough to a car to draft, either. A truck is worse because you can't see past it. It's also worse because it has more mass and will cause more damage.
I read it. Knowing that you're taking a chance, and thinking that looking at the maintenance of the vehicle is going to make it safe deserves special mention on the award.
Did they actually draw blood or require a physical? My friend at the time was going for Top Secret, and they made him take a lie detector test, and if I recall correctly asked some embarrassing sexual questions.
Many years ago I applied for and received "Secret" clearance (long since abandoned). The only thing they did was make me fill out a questionnaire. That's consistent with this story regarding NASA employees.
and you get to save gas if you get into the zone where the air density is lower due to the drag caused by the truck trailer.
And you get to qualify for a Darwin award.
Damn, you're dumb. If they want to track employees, they'll give you the smartphone as a work phone to carry around if you don't have one. The cost of a phone is peanuts in comparison to employee compensation.
Despite the Dilbert mentality techies like to have about managers, I've known several good managers who were smart people and good at what they did. I've known some bad ones, too, but the same could be said about my tech colleagues.
Enough to be immune to luring away (or bribing) from the competition.
Greed knows no limit. Somebody demanding an $800k per year salary could easily be bribed for a few million if they are prone to being bribed. What's really silly is just how little people can be bribed for, people who could afford the things they are being bribed with.
The CEO of NPR makes $450K/year. The CEO of Unicef makes $473K/year. The CEO of the American Red Cross makes $1M/year. The CEO of the Boys & Girls Club makes $1M. This list could go on.
The list just shows that CEOs are overpaid. Nothing new there. A CEO just needs to be a competent manager, and there are plenty of them around.
I like the pitcher/hitter duel, which I've mentioned several times and is the meat of the game. The other action is fine, too, but it only comes in spurts. While it's true I'm not a current fan, it's not because I didn't give it a try or from lack of understanding.
Compared to most other web development languages/frameworks you know that you can write your entire web app in one language and that if within 1 function you want to persist something to the database and update the webpage DOM you can do that and the opa compiler will handle splitting that out into the client-side and server-side code to accomplish that with the glue to hold them together.
Holy run-on sentence, Batman!
Ah, I see. You are not a fan of the sport
Ah, the "No true Scotsman" fallacy. I followed baseball a fair amount, but gave it up because in the end it was too aggravating.
and so may not have an understanding of it's more subtle elements.
Ah, the argument by authority fallacy. You told me the subtle elements you liked, and I told you I explicitly disliked what appealed to you. It's a difference of opinion.
You don't seem to want that to change so I'll leave you in peace.
Good, because I'm tired of replying to your weak arguments.
Every time the ball misses the strike zone, it comes down to swing/no swing. The call happens several times every inning.
I think you're trying to force a point that isn't relevant. It's perfectly obvious the vast majority of the time when the batter swung or not, and as a critic of the umps, it's not something that bothers me, unlike the nearly constant aggravation of balls and strikes.
Gaming the umpire is really just an extension of the pitcher gaming the batsman. The pitcher wants to catch him looking, so he has to distort his view of the zone.
The umpire is there to enforce the rules, and ideally inserts himself into the game in a 100% correct manner. I like the pitcher/hitter psychological duel. I do not like the umpire getting in the way of that.
You can't get the ump out of it anyway. Baseball is nearly unique in it's reliance on the ump.
Actually, it's just the opposite. Baseball is fairly unique in that you largely can get the ump out of the way, as the pitcher/hitter duel is over 90% of the game, and the vast majority of that is balls and strikes. The other big three sports in the US, basketball, football, and hockey, are high in contact and moving bodies, and it would be much harder to automate them away.
There isn't even a 'standard' field.
I'm only talking about balls and strikes, despite how you keep on wanting to expand beyond that.
It may be why other sports with 'set times' routinely run over but the game that has no theoretical time limit at all can be counted on to get over in 2 1/2 to 3 hours or so the vast majority of the time.
Give me a break. How long the game takes depends on how fast the outs come, and besides that, baseball is notorious for stopping play. I'd be willing to bet the other big three sports in the US are comparable in how much they deviate.
The bad calls stand out because there are so remarkably few of them.
I notice several every inning any time I happen to tune in for a bit. I almost never watch baseball, though, because the pace of the game is slow, and the major compelling factor that would make it tolerable, the pitcher/hitter duel, is ruined by the umpire's inconsistent strike zone.
Beyond the fact that many baseball fans LOVE to disagree with the ump
They'll still be there to call tags and whatnot, just not there to impose themselves on every pitch.
All of that gameplay is lost is a computer and cameras call the balls and strikes.
I don't consider gaming the umpire a good part of the game. The vast majority of baseball comes down to the pitcher/hitter duel, and I'd prefer the true skill of those dynamics to constant interference by umpires. It really kills me when a good pitch is spoiled by a bad call, or vice versa when a good eye by the hitter on a ball is spoiled by the ump.
Beyond that, how will the computer decide if the batsman swung or not? We don't even have official rules for that.
Then let the umpire decide. Unlike balls and strikes, it's a fairly rare call anyways.
I don't think it would really be the same game without the ump making the call.
It would still be baseball, an objectively fairer version of it. But as I said, there's tradition to contend with, and I don't think it'll ever happen.
but like many (most?) other baseball fans, I don't want it affecting the game as it happens.
I'm exactly the opposite. For me the refs in any sport are an annoying distraction when they make wrong calls, and calling of balls and strikes is over 90% of the game in baseball. There's really no reason computers can't take over for balls and strikes except for tradition.
You're nitpicking to a fault. It's like spinning a roulette wheel. We consider it random exactly because it is unpredictable to the players as normally played, but if you had some technology with you, you could predict where the ball was going to land.
China wants North Korea as a buffer between the United States and China, and they also want to avoid a flood of refugees into China. However, China knows that a nuclear attack by North Korea could only be met by complete and utter destruction of the North, and they wouldn't want to engage in a war protecting a nuke-happy regime.
The other part you are missing is that despite how whacky the North Koreans seem, they aren't suicidal and don't want to be demolished. That's why they limit their attacks to provocative strikes when they want attention.
Ideally the author should have exclusive right to distribution of their work.
You state this as if it was some uncontroversial fact in the copyright debate. That's bullshit. Lots of people don't agree with this anti-freedom, artificial scarcity model for intellectual works.