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The ranking wouldn't be based on the minimum bid, it'd be based on the amount recruiters actually pay. If the min bid is $1000 but no recruiters pay it, then the applicant would be at the bottom of the rankings.

Bidding system? Hmm...

Like if I put my resume on a site, someone has to bid to contact me? Perhaps as an applicant, you can set a base price and a frequency of contact. Maybe you only allow one recruiter to contact you per week or day. If you want to be that recruiter, it'll cost you minimum $1. If more than one recruiter wants to contact you, they bid up the price.

Applicants could regulate the minimum price based on their current status. If they are employed happily, the price is $1000. If they are unemployed, perhaps it's zero with unlimited contacts until they get flooded and then the price goes up.

The economics of such an idea is interesting. It assumes a shift in power from the employer to the applicant. The best of the best will rise to the top and a natural ranking of applicants will evolve based on the bid. Great applicants could sustain themselves on employer interest for a while until recruiters give up trying to gain their interest.

Could something like this work? I suppose it depends on supply and demand of both applicants and jobs.

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It would be nice if people who post only their own articles cared enough about the community to participate in a manner more significant than only that. Submitting personal articles and running is borderline spammy.

A hint is to watch the location bar when you click it.

We know what would have happened: It wouldn't have happened.

The claim lots of people make about "we'd be richer if we kept our taxes" is erroneous. How much richer would we be if we didn't have to pay for the operation of the network and the profits to thousands of shareholders who add no value? There are scales of projects where the profit motive hampers development.

The information super highway is every bit as important to the future of our nation as vehicle highways were in the 1950's.

For the most part, you don't have to pay to drive on Interstates. There are exceptions in and around some major cities like Chicago, but imagine where we would be today if it cost money to drive on every road.

We couldn't leave a project like the highway system in the hands of a private corporation. Imagine what we could build with investment from an organization with a vision of decades rather than months.

You know, the government told librarians they had to turn over the lists of books people checked out from the library and so they stopped storing that information. They delete it.

I applaud the librarians for standing up to the government. Google... not so much.

Everything is fine in FF. It was the Galaxy demo, but I tried the others too and they aren't working in Opera either. The Mario one does work, except the space bar Pages Down, so it isn't playable.

Opera info: Version 10.10

Build 1893

Platform Win32

System Windows XP

Java Sun Java Runtime Environment version 1.6

XHTML+Voice Plug-in not loaded

Doesn't work in Opera. The background image appears and the music starts playing, but that's it. In FF i noticed a loading progress bar and it proceeded to a welcome screen and I can play it as expected.

I think preventing reciprocity for the behaviors that benefit corporations is a step in the right direction.

It doesn't call into question global warming as much as it illustrates the biases and unscrupulous means to which humans will go to propagate a desired opinion of reality.

The issue at hand here is one of trust and integrity. If the scientific community has none, then it is degrading itself to other areas of thought that use fabricated realities to push agendas.

Does this blogger actually think his post among the thousands on the web complaining about this question has anything novel or insightful to offer? What a waste of time.

Books is a good example, because Google violated copyright law without even consulting the owners of the content. They didn't do this for consumers, they did this to fight Amazon -- who did obey the law.

I think that balance is prosecuting the fraudsters. There have always been laws against fraud. Locks keep out the honest people. The criminals are going to find ways around SOX too.

I think the real solution here is to stop treating corporations like individuals. Stop allowing them to contribute to political campaigns. End soft money. The enron guys were in bed with washington. You have to end that kind of relationship to prevent the power shift that pushed the balance to the corporations.

This confirms my belief that companies heavy on marketing are light on product. Steve's blog is all about the marketing side of the coin and I've often wondered if the products his companies produce are any good.

It saddens me a bit to learn that they are terrible.

unfortunately yes.

don't have java installed and don't want to.

That's interesting. I've noticed that over time, in pictures, people smile more. Compare pictures of people today with pictures of people from the 1800's.

Amazon is losing $2 on each e-book. Sometimes forward thinking innovations take a while to get profitable. Sometimes the market is too small. There may be 5 people who want it, but it costs more than they can afford.

That follow up question and the end of the article makes the author look like a complete bozo. They should have edited it out.

I'd say Microsoft's history is quite the opposite. The oft cited example is that Visicalc, from the 80's still works! I'd say that's a pretty reliable platform. How many apple products from the 80's run on Leopard?

And on the other side, lots of google products are already defunct and they aren't even half M's age.

Like CD? BluRay? DVD? Patents don't stop things from being implemented. Sounds like propaganda to me.

The technology isn't the problem, the finances is the problem. Credit card companies are loaning money. If people don't pay, then they get mad. If sketchy people on the street are using this device and then the consumer says, "I got ripped off" and refuses to pay then the credit card companies are going to put an end to this pretty fast.

Paypal had the same issue. They got around it eventually, but there were still barriers to using paypal. How are these guys going to keep out the riff raff?

Yes, a complete end to end would be nice.

These are good tips, but it doesn't eliminate the additional production time required to use sprites. You still have to combine all the images into one, then take time to position them where you want.

The tips speed up production with sprites, but it's still faster to produce sites without using sprites.

edw519's post is based on the assumption that you are going to take on a programming job. If that is the case, you will probably burn out on programming and not really have the passion to be a great programmer.

However, there are tons of business people who have never done any programming and are still great business people. Imagine how great a business person you will be if you do know the technology.

A lot of business people go the business route and then are forced to do programming from time to time and they really write crap code and it breaks and it's horrible to maintain that stuff. Your code will be better than that.

I had this guy tell me one time, he was a business grad, he said, "Coding is easy, all people should take business courses and learn the programming on the job." But believe me, I had to fix that guy's code and integrate it into the big picture and it was total garbage. I suppose the Dunning-Kruger effect kept him from realizing how bad his code was.

Anyway, point being, I think if your passion is in the business side and you go through the ranks in school getting your CS degree, then you could be unstoppable in the tech world. If more CS grads had the business passion, they'd be better entrepreneurs.

It's not about being interested in it or not, it's about the appearance. Cops don't know anything about the hacker mind or why they are using them.

Cops aren't hackers. If you're too curious, you can't even be a cop. If I was a cop and I was busting a place doing illegal stuff and I saw lock picking gear laying around everywhere, I would think they are up to no good.

Why everyone here is shocked by thought that cops would think people publicly collaborating to defeat security measures are up to no good is a bit perplexing.

I am not saying they were up to no good. I am saying it is easily believable that they were up to no good. In fact, I would say, cops who did not assume they were up to no good would be remiss in their duties to protect the public, because in most cases, people with that kind of stuff lying around aren't into it for benevolence.

Why do they have cut away locks to practice lock picking and blank keys and stuff like that? Sounds kind of shady.

Most decisions at that level aren't made based on data and facts. They are made based on the emotional appeal of the acquisition of power both through increased control and financial benefit.

Politicians ignore the facts all the time. They invent facts all the time. Politics has little to do with science.

That's about 4 photos per user. Doesn't seem like a lot. How many of your users have over 100 photos, 200, 300? Those are the ones you want to concentrate on. Ask them how to make the service better. They are your power users. Most everyone else is just a lurker.