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Comment Re:Intelligent Design (Score 1) 497

How so?

As I remember it the bible seems to state:

"So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind."

This becomes weird when we see that in fact there is very little "clear" speciation.

Personally, I have difficulty reconciling that with evolution, hence, difficulty believing in the bible.

Comment Re:In MOST ways you don't need Flash (Score 1) 541

WHY!?

I hate that, to try and "restrict" me from saving a picture off the web is trying to have one's cake and eat it. I've already downloaded the damn thing, it's in the computer's memory, and you try some annoying JavaScript to prevent me from right-clicking?

If companies do not want me having a copy of THAT exact image or something, don't put it on the Internet. Maybe put up a lower resolution or watermark it, whatever. Just don't try and tell me how and when to view the content you freely provide.

And yes, there is the problem of content stealing. But that is, in most cases, not a problem if the image is watermarked or something like that.

Comment Re:Not first ?? (Score 1) 144

Just exactly what do you call overclocking?

GPUs (or CPUs) haven't got the clock speed set from the beginning of the manufacturing process, it's actually based on a number of quality checks done by the manufacturer.

Therefore I find the term "factory overclock" just a bit misleading, since the clock speed is set at the factory anyway.

Image

Rotten Office Fridge Cleanup Sends 7 To Hospital 410

bokske writes "An office worker cleaning a fridge full of rotten food created a smell so noxious that it sent seven co-workers to the hospital and made many others ill. Firefighters had to evacuate the AT&T building in downtown San Jose on Tuesday, after the flagrant fumes prompted someone to call 911. A hazmat team was called in. Just another day at the office."
Education

Narcissistic College Graduates In the Workplace? 1316

SpuriousLogic writes "I work as a senior software engineer, and a fair amount of my time is spent interviewing new developers. I have seen a growing trend of what I would call 'TV reality' college graduates — kids who graduated school in the last few years and seem to have a view of the workplace that is very much fashioned by TV programs, where 22-year-olds lead billion-dollar corporate mergers in Paris and jet around the world. Several years ago I worked at a company that did customization for the software they sold. It was not full-on consultant work, but some aspects of it were 'consulting light,' and did involve travel, some overseas. Almost every college graduate I interviewed fully expected to be sent overseas on their first assignment. They were very disappointed when told they were most likely to end up in places like Decater, IL and Cedar Rapids, IA, as only the most senior people fly overseas, because of the cost. Additionally, I see people in this age bracket expecting almost constant rewards. One new hire told me that he thought he had a good chance at an award because he had taught himself Enterprise Java Beans. When told that learning new tech is an expected part of being a developer, he argued that he had learned it by himself, and that made it different. So today I see an article about the growing narcissism of students, and I want to ask this community: are you seeing the sorts of 'crashing down to Earth' expectations of college grads described here? Is working with this age bracket more challenging than others? Do they produce work that is above or below your expectations of a recent college grad?" We discussed a similar question from the point of view of the young employees a few months back.
Government

Swiss Banks Making Concessions On Secrecy 325

Aryabhata writes in with news that should chill the hearts of evil dictators and tax cheats everywhere: one of the last bastions of strong banking secrecy, Switzerland, is bowing to international pressure and agreeing to cooperate with some foreign investigations of wrongdoing. "...the Swiss government announced on Friday that it would cooperate in international tax investigations, breaking with its long-standing tradition of protecting wealthy foreigners accused of hiding billions of dollars. Austria and Luxembourg also said they would help. ... The famed 'numbered accounts' that do not bear the owner's name will still be available for clients willing to pay for added anonymity. ... Over the past month, leaders have made similar promises in Singapore, Liechtenstein, Bermuda, the British islands of Jersey and Guernsey, and tiny Andorra... other 'offshore' banking centers are still available in the Caribbean, Panama, Dubai and elsewhere."

Comment Re:Ad Blocking = Digital Earplugs..... (Score 1) 390

As I read through these replies i noticed a lot of people saying that "Ads are the only way a site can make money" and so on and so forth.

Yeah, about that, that is going to have to change. Why? Because a generation is growing up now that do not click ads on the internet. They have the opinion that ads are bad. They download shows off the internet so they don't have to sit through ads, use AdBlock and if they want to buy something, they do a Google (or equivalent) search for it and compare a couple of sites before buying.

I'm not saying this is good or bad but things are changing.

Comment Re:JavaScript? (Score 1) 214

If people actually bothered to read the error messages. I've had teachers (note: plural) that couldn't decipher Python error messages simply because if its in red and says something about an error they click it away and go try to troubleshoot manually. Kids are even worse this way.

Of course I am in Iceland so I can't state this for native English speakers but I don't think it has anything to do with that.

But yes, I agree with you on HTML and CSS because if you're going to try and not kill all curiosity you best give them results as soon as possible.

Comment Re:Are those points accurate? (Score 1) 576

3.) Piracy (while i don't care if people rip shows and place them on the net.) led to poorly named file names of the shows, leaving one to wonder if what your downloading is the same thing you'll be watching in the next 30 minutes. Is it the HighDef version the Standard Def version or some crappy copy? Who nows.

The pirate community has actually developed quite a nice nice naming standard. With labels like HDTV, E##S## and such (# being the number of a series or episode). If you're using any of the larger sites (The Pirate Bay etc.) there is almost always (at least for the more popular shows) a properly named version.

Data Storage

Can SSDs Be Used For Software Development? 480

hackingbear writes "I'm considering buying a current-generation SSD to replace my external hard disk drive for use in my day-to-day software development, especially to boost the IDE's performance. Size is not a great concern: 120GB is enough for me. Price is not much of a concern either, as my boss will pay. I do have concerns on the limitations of write cycles as well as write speeds. As I understand, the current SSDs overcome it by heuristically placing the writes randomly. That would be good enough for regular users, but in software development, one may have to update 10-30% of the source files from Subversion and recompile the whole project, several times a day. I wonder how SSDs will do in this usage pattern. What's your experience developing on SSDs?"

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