I agree with everything you say until the last paragraph.
The rules are not rigged in favor of young people, you are not playing the game because you think the rules are stupid. A young person on the other hand doesn't know any better and assumes everyone asks the same stupid questions (which is becoming more and more true).
Google's "rigging" runs contrary to the Labour Laws. Oops!
Er, where in the article did you read that he wasn't hired for not answering stupid questions in his interview?
You can't test creativity. Especially under pressure in an interview. I think the person who says "I'll look it up" when asked to write a sorting algorithm is being truthful and honest. Also in the long run he/she will save your company money but not reinventing the wheel every other day.
And BTW The guy who developped quick sort didn't develop that algorithm in 30 seconds and during an interview.
Those questions in an interview isn't about being smart or knowing something. It just shows if you are prepared or not (just like the SATs, GRE etc). "Snot-nosed" college kids don't like those questions either, just their college consolers told them the rules of the game and they came prepared.
The car analogy is bad; but I'll play along: I never stole the car, a judge gave it to me. I can drive it to Mexico, US, Europe, wherever; the car belongs to me.
From the article:
permission for Antiguans to violate intellectual property laws by allowing them to distribute copies of American music, movie and software products, among others.
This basically is asking for a ruling to give a copyright to all US IP. In other words, I live in Antigua, I have a copy of Linux, the source says I should obey GPL but the WTO says I can ignore it. I can make changes to the source (remove GPL) and distribute it all I want.
If I'm in the US and come by a version of no-license-linux released legally by someone in Antigua. If I use that code am I doing anything illegal? I don't think so.
Then again, stuff that is GPL'ed cannot be considered pure US IP because many people around the world contributed to them. So Antiguans probibly would not be able to redistribute without GPL.
Bringing in software that is in the public domain is not illegal (unlike pot). The WTO will effectively give Antigua the right to replace GPL with any license it wants: antigux.
This happened in the past, people in Detroit were driving over to Windsor, Canada and gambling their money away. Shortly after that three casinos opened in Detroit: if you can't beat them, join them.
- Write an algorithm that can analyze images to detect nudity and or sexual acts
- Write an algorithm that can try to determine the age of a person in an image.
- Put the two together
- Profit!
Say you hired 10000 programmers but you let them sit around without producing anything. That is more spending and no growth. What the investors are saying is "stop doing that". Makes sense to me.
A lot of speculators out there expecting amazing things from google. If google can't deliver they take their money elsewhere, no one is punishing anyone.
I have a friend who works in the olive oil industry in Turkey. His definition of "extra virgin" was "low in acidity". Although his description of EVOO production is the same as yours (the first batch of oil extracted).
Europeans are already competing amongst themselves for who can reduce the most.
I read the whole carbon credit thing failed because the European governments gave out too many credits. Perhaps you should have said "Europeans are acting as if they are competing amongst themselves for who can reduce the most".
I agree. I have been planning for a long time to buy a laptop for my boat which I can connect to the GPS and do navigation on. There are some great products for windows and none for linux. I'm sad to say I might have to fork some money over to Bill.
I'll give you oil, I'll also agree that probibly a sushi restaurant in NYC imports their fish from Japan. But... really... the US is NOT dependant on foreign food. Anyone who claims that has never flown over the midwest (think farms, miles and miles of neverending farms).
I read an article about the report in yesterdays FT. The article suggested to take the report with a grain of salt:
However, Ian Shepherdson, chief US economist at High Frequency Economics, said he was "baffled" by the strength of the figures.
"The rise in the ISM index is impossible to square with either the regional surveys released over the past few weeks or our medium-term, yield-driven model," he said. "We think it is quite likely that in their next iterations the ISM will drop sharply."
If the universe is given a choice between two paths, it takes the path that creates the most entropy. If humans become extinct the next sentient species will be worse than us (if you agreed on the first statement you have to agree on the second, the universe picked them over us). So, for the sake of humanity, keep heating up the atmosphere.
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I agree with everything you say until the last paragraph.
The rules are not rigged in favor of young people, you are not playing the game because you think the rules are stupid. A young person on the other hand doesn't know any better and assumes everyone asks the same stupid questions (which is becoming more and more true).
Er, where in the article did you read that he wasn't hired for not answering stupid questions in his interview?
You can't test creativity. Especially under pressure in an interview. I think the person who says "I'll look it up" when asked to write a sorting algorithm is being truthful and honest. Also in the long run he/she will save your company money but not reinventing the wheel every other day.
And BTW The guy who developped quick sort didn't develop that algorithm in 30 seconds and during an interview.
Those questions in an interview isn't about being smart or knowing something. It just shows if you are prepared or not (just like the SATs, GRE etc). "Snot-nosed" college kids don't like those questions either, just their college consolers told them the rules of the game and they came prepared.
Can someone in Norway petition the Norwegian Government Pension Fund to dump Sony shares please?
There are lego mindstorms people out there who solve more involved problems every other week.
The clip made me hungry for sushi. Unagi anyone?
I wonder if world of warcraft affected by this. Doesn't WoW use their own version of BT to propagate patches?
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The car analogy is bad; but I'll play along: I never stole the car, a judge gave it to me. I can drive it to Mexico, US, Europe, wherever; the car belongs to me.
From the article:
This basically is asking for a ruling to give a copyright to all US IP. In other words, I live in Antigua, I have a copy of Linux, the source says I should obey GPL but the WTO says I can ignore it. I can make changes to the source (remove GPL) and distribute it all I want.
If I'm in the US and come by a version of no-license-linux released legally by someone in Antigua. If I use that code am I doing anything illegal? I don't think so.
Then again, stuff that is GPL'ed cannot be considered pure US IP because many people around the world contributed to them. So Antiguans probibly would not be able to redistribute without GPL.
Bringing in software that is in the public domain is not illegal (unlike pot). The WTO will effectively give Antigua the right to replace GPL with any license it wants: antigux.
This happened in the past, people in Detroit were driving over to Windsor, Canada and gambling their money away. Shortly after that three casinos opened in Detroit: if you can't beat them, join them.
binary blob? Shouldn't that be just blob or binary lob? Or is this just another case of the SSN number syndrome?
Why then did they NOT surrender after the first nuke was dropped?
- Write an algorithm that can analyze images to detect nudity and or sexual acts - Write an algorithm that can try to determine the age of a person in an image. - Put the two together - Profit!
I think the investors have it right.
Say you hired 10000 programmers but you let them sit around without producing anything. That is more spending and no growth. What the investors are saying is "stop doing that". Makes sense to me.
A lot of speculators out there expecting amazing things from google. If google can't deliver they take their money elsewhere, no one is punishing anyone.
I have a friend who works in the olive oil industry in Turkey. His definition of "extra virgin" was "low in acidity". Although his description of EVOO production is the same as yours (the first batch of oil extracted).
I'm curious. What is your definition of extra virgin olive oil?
I read the whole carbon credit thing failed because the European governments gave out too many credits. Perhaps you should have said "Europeans are acting as if they are competing amongst themselves for who can reduce the most".
Its obvious that Kevin Martin has never been to NYC. Fuck and Shit aren't considered swear words here.
I agree. I have been planning for a long time to buy a laptop for my boat which I can connect to the GPS and do navigation on. There are some great products for windows and none for linux. I'm sad to say I might have to fork some money over to Bill.
Please, please, please Ms. Halvorsen put VZ on your black list.
This is an amazing story. I love Norway. Sticking it to the man, the only way the man can be hurt.
I'll give you oil, I'll also agree that probibly a sushi restaurant in NYC imports their fish from Japan. But ... really... the US is NOT dependant on foreign food. Anyone who claims that has never flown over the midwest (think farms, miles and miles of neverending farms).
Full article here
Strangely a report that just came out suggests that the US manufacturing sector is not doing all that bad: http://www.ism.ws/about/mediaroom/newsreleasedetai l.cfm?ItemNumber=16479&navItemNumber=12942
If the universe is given a choice between two paths, it takes the path that creates the most entropy. If humans become extinct the next sentient species will be worse than us (if you agreed on the first statement you have to agree on the second, the universe picked them over us). So, for the sake of humanity, keep heating up the atmosphere.