there was a time when even the most successful of cartoonists would not be in a higher tax bracket than I am.
America is far too self centered. A guy with one of the coolest, lowest pressure jobs around makes a pile of cash and is worried about how much the government is going to take from him. At no point in this does he realize how amazingly lucky he is to be able to pull down 6 figures as a fucking cartoonist.
From what I can tell the data that this study was based on was collected for a different study. They said that they were not able to ask the men if they were faithful in their relationship becasue the study was already done by the time they discovered this correlation.
It might be used as the basis for a new study though. Hopefully one that will cover both men and women.
yea, your not likely to get all that far explaining this here in this forum.
I know that I do not tend toward monogamy (despite the decade and a half spend trying to pretend differently) and yet I don't sleep around. I don't troll bars looking for horny women and I don't jump into bed with strangers. What I do is form long term committed relationships with more than one person.
Unfortunately when people read about this, what the imagine is the guy who is at the bar every night taking home a different women. Now its possible that both that guy and I lack this same gene (or not) but we both make very different choices about how we live our lives.
It would be a lot more interesting though if this study was applied to women as well. As it stands now this just sounds (to most people) like misogyny backed up by science, but if you had a study of both sexes you wouldn't have people talking about men cheating or having harems... you might have people talking about polyamory.
And a charger for each of the proprietary batteries for each of your devices, plus an extra battery for each so you can still use the device while charging a battery.
While your right that Psystar is violating the EULA and that its not clear if the EULA is enforceable I do not believe that is the core of Apples case (mostly because they don't want to find out that their EULA is unenforceable).
I believe they are suing because Psystar modified and redistributed the software updates from apple which is a violation of copyright law. Apple didn't sue them when they first shipped units with OS X installed they waited until they had distributed a modified software update for just this reason.
I believe they might be able to force Psystar to enact a recall since the units are "defective" since they cannot take security updates from apple. I do not believe that either party will be able to force users to give up their machines.
Then again, given that these people have machines that cannot be updated, wouldn't you rather get your money back than have a machine that wont ever get another software update?
Actually its not clear that this is what apple is suing over. It appears that what they are suing over is that Psystar took their updates, modified them and redistributed them for commercial gain without a license.
I suspect that they waited for just this reason. They are going after Psystar because they modified and redistributed patches from apple and not because the installed OSX on non Apple computers.
If they went after them for installing OSX they would eventually be going after those who did it themselves and thats not profitable or good for business. After all Psystar would just stop offering the install service and people would just do it themselves.
By going after Psystar for the update they cut off any support or upgrades for these machines which makes them a lot less desirable regardless of who installed the OS.
even if you agreed to a contract that doesn't mean that its enforceable. Most of the time when you sign an employment agreement (especially ones with a non compete) it will have a clause that says roughly "If one part of this contract is found to be invalid the rest still holds"
Just because I signed it and you signed it doesn't mean its legally binding.
There are actually many ways in which firewire is far superior to USB. The reason USB is so common is because its cheep, which is actually a really good reason. A firewire keyboard would be a colossal waste of money.
Ill give you that. I dont really see where this case has a lot of merit, but I guess it depends on how they reported their source.
Obviously this topic is pretty brain dead but if a paper reported stuff in blogs as truth in other areas, without verification or identification of the source, that could be a problem. What if next time the paper runs a story based on a 9/11 conspiracy blog.
No, not every paper, but there certainly are papers like that. If the New York times started reporting on Michael Jacksons 2 headed alien child I suspect their readership would fall and they would end up in supermarket checkout isles.
I'm not saying that's the best thing but I'm not sure that those "aliens ate my baby" rags are destroying the media.
Don't people regularly do that now though? Its a daily occurrence in sports reporting where "An official close to the club" reports that somebody is going to be traded to another team. It also seems to happen fairly regularly in financial and political reporting.
It seems to me that you couldnt possibly get in trouble for saying "According to her blog on myspace.com little suzy rich girls party got out of hand and someone threw a TV out the window"
I mean, thats certainly a true statement. If that would be acceptable to print without verifying the truth of the actual event then this isnt going to have much of an impact one way or another.
Personally I dont like the idea of a news paper regurgitating a blog as truth. Its one thing to refer to the blog, they way you might refer to another publication (ie "ABC news called florida for bush at 10:30").
A good manager with some technical knowledge can be a great boon to a development team, they understand the basics of the craft, they understand the uncertainty and they probably even have a good grasp of roughly how long things take.
In fact, I would assume that when he says he is bad at programming he either
1)has trouble conceptualizing complex algorithms or
2) has trouble dealing with the minute detail that coding requires.
neither of those mean that he doesnt get the basic ideas behind CS.
Of course if he is a bad manger he's shit out of luck.
Your right that he should look at why he got into CS in the first place. There are many options open to him that might fit better than project management but its certainly an option.
BTW, I find CS pays me pretty well. I'm not going to make a killing on an IPO any time soon but I get paid as well as an engineer in most other disciplines. I certainly don't feel like I'm underpaid.
A trained chimp can install a new hard drive or ram in a modern mac. If your local PC repair shop cant figure it out they have no business being a repair shop.
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there was a time when even the most successful of cartoonists would not be in a higher tax bracket than I am.
America is far too self centered. A guy with one of the coolest, lowest pressure jobs around makes a pile of cash and is worried about how much the government is going to take from him. At no point in this does he realize how amazingly lucky he is to be able to pull down 6 figures as a fucking cartoonist.
Chrome polish!
the guy who played kramer got in some hot water for making some off color jokes a while back.
here is a video:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/307809/seinfelds_kramers_racist_tirade_of_craziness/
From what I can tell the data that this study was based on was collected for a different study. They said that they were not able to ask the men if they were faithful in their relationship becasue the study was already done by the time they discovered this correlation.
It might be used as the basis for a new study though. Hopefully one that will cover both men and women.
yea, your not likely to get all that far explaining this here in this forum.
I know that I do not tend toward monogamy (despite the decade and a half spend trying to pretend differently) and yet I don't sleep around. I don't troll bars looking for horny women and I don't jump into bed with strangers. What I do is form long term committed relationships with more than one person.
Unfortunately when people read about this, what the imagine is the guy who is at the bar every night taking home a different women. Now its possible that both that guy and I lack this same gene (or not) but we both make very different choices about how we live our lives.
It would be a lot more interesting though if this study was applied to women as well. As it stands now this just sounds (to most people) like misogyny backed up by science, but if you had a study of both sexes you wouldn't have people talking about men cheating or having harems... you might have people talking about polyamory.
Just because someone has the desire to be non-monogamous does not mean that they cheat on their significant others.
I'm sorry, when you said "integrated" I read that as iPhone like, non user replaceable batteries.
That said, if you stick to only gadgets that use AA or AAA batteries you are going to be very limited in your selection of electronics.
And a charger for each of the proprietary batteries for each of your devices, plus an extra battery for each so you can still use the device while charging a battery.
Yea, sounds like a great solution.
While your right that Psystar is violating the EULA and that its not clear if the EULA is enforceable I do not believe that is the core of Apples case (mostly because they don't want to find out that their EULA is unenforceable).
I believe they are suing because Psystar modified and redistributed the software updates from apple which is a violation of copyright law. Apple didn't sue them when they first shipped units with OS X installed they waited until they had distributed a modified software update for just this reason.
MENDOZAAAAAA!!!!!
yea, and its cheep and its probably not your only computer.
But if it was you might take that refund and buy yourself a new machine, either a mac or a PC just to know that you have some kind of support.
Apple can ask for whatever they want.
I believe they might be able to force Psystar to enact a recall since the units are "defective" since they cannot take security updates from apple. I do not believe that either party will be able to force users to give up their machines.
Then again, given that these people have machines that cannot be updated, wouldn't you rather get your money back than have a machine that wont ever get another software update?
Actually its not clear that this is what apple is suing over. It appears that what they are suing over is that Psystar took their updates, modified them and redistributed them for commercial gain without a license.
I suspect that they waited for just this reason. They are going after Psystar because they modified and redistributed patches from apple and not because the installed OSX on non Apple computers.
If they went after them for installing OSX they would eventually be going after those who did it themselves and thats not profitable or good for business. After all Psystar would just stop offering the install service and people would just do it themselves.
By going after Psystar for the update they cut off any support or upgrades for these machines which makes them a lot less desirable regardless of who installed the OS.
Thank you. I think this is something that is all too often overlooked here.
even if you agreed to a contract that doesn't mean that its enforceable. Most of the time when you sign an employment agreement (especially ones with a non compete) it will have a clause that says roughly "If one part of this contract is found to be invalid the rest still holds"
Just because I signed it and you signed it doesn't mean its legally binding.
There are actually many ways in which firewire is far superior to USB. The reason USB is so common is because its cheep, which is actually a really good reason. A firewire keyboard would be a colossal waste of money.
Ill give you that. I dont really see where this case has a lot of merit, but I guess it depends on how they reported their source.
Obviously this topic is pretty brain dead but if a paper reported stuff in blogs as truth in other areas, without verification or identification of the source, that could be a problem. What if next time the paper runs a story based on a 9/11 conspiracy blog.
No, not every paper, but there certainly are papers like that. If the New York times started reporting on Michael Jacksons 2 headed alien child I suspect their readership would fall and they would end up in supermarket checkout isles.
I'm not saying that's the best thing but I'm not sure that those "aliens ate my baby" rags are destroying the media.
Don't people regularly do that now though? Its a daily occurrence in sports reporting where "An official close to the club" reports that somebody is going to be traded to another team. It also seems to happen fairly regularly in financial and political reporting.
I don't put much stock in anonymous sources.
If they had written a story about the blog entry?
It seems to me that you couldnt possibly get in trouble for saying "According to her blog on myspace.com little suzy rich girls party got out of hand and someone threw a TV out the window"
I mean, thats certainly a true statement. If that would be acceptable to print without verifying the truth of the actual event then this isnt going to have much of an impact one way or another.
Personally I dont like the idea of a news paper regurgitating a blog as truth. Its one thing to refer to the blog, they way you might refer to another publication (ie "ABC news called florida for bush at 10:30").
for instance, if the person who wrote this slashdot story had used "example.com" for his domain, what would you suggest he use for his friends domain?
A good manager with some technical knowledge can be a great boon to a development team, they understand the basics of the craft, they understand the uncertainty and they probably even have a good grasp of roughly how long things take.
In fact, I would assume that when he says he is bad at programming he either
1)has trouble conceptualizing complex algorithms or
2) has trouble dealing with the minute detail that coding requires.
neither of those mean that he doesnt get the basic ideas behind CS.
Of course if he is a bad manger he's shit out of luck.
Your right that he should look at why he got into CS in the first place. There are many options open to him that might fit better than project management but its certainly an option.
BTW, I find CS pays me pretty well. I'm not going to make a killing on an IPO any time soon but I get paid as well as an engineer in most other disciplines. I certainly don't feel like I'm underpaid.
better than letting them code.
A trained chimp can install a new hard drive or ram in a modern mac. If your local PC repair shop cant figure it out they have no business being a repair shop.