Once, unions served a great and honourable purpose. Today, that purpose isn't as great and honourable as it once was, because the unions of yesteryear won the great battles to give us fair labour laws. The unions have few battles left to fight, and little intention of fighting the ones that actually matter.
Everytime someone spouts bullshit like that, I'm reminded of the McDonald's waitress that was raped while her supervisor was looking on. The corporate world won't ensure the protection of their workers on the workplace because it costs money. Ensuring the integrity of their slaves is counter productive because those people are harder to abuse. You know why the girl didn't resist or try to escape? Because she would have been FIRED on the spot for DISOBEYING her managers orders.
When it comes down to it, currently used interpreted languages are alive for a reason and generally you can choose any one you like and get to the goal without too much difficulty. Python, Perl, Ruby, even Powershell (as of 2k8r2 and 7) represent pretty capable languages to write in. Personal preference and available experience outweigh the technical differences in my opinion.
The reason you say this is because you have little to no experience with Ruby or Python. I can't comment on Powershell since I don't know it enough. Though I can say without doubt that Python and Ruby is a superior choice to Perl for new systems.
This is almost correlationisnotcausation worthy. All kinds of violent crime in those countries also decreased during the periods mentioned. There was also a huge number of other societal changes that took place during that period. The studies show that increased availability of porn does not lead to more rapes. They do not show that increased availability of porn leads to fewer rapes.
I know this is/. where people doesn't have any clue about money. But does anyone for a second think that a site that is chock full of ads and is the 90th most popular site in the world is not making money? The hosting costs for the site is at most a few hundred dollars per month. The income from advertising is at least $100k per month.
Even if the owners of tpb wouldn't be liable for copyright infringement, they are still guilty of tax evasion on a major scale since they haven't declared the income for it.
When leading politicians in the worlds only remaining superpower calls for fatwas against people they disagree with, then yeah, you do begin to worry.
Besides, Bush isn't president anymore, Obama is. He was elected on a platform to increase government transparency. But the way his government has handled the wikileaks situation pretty much proves nothing has changed.
To make the documents accessible, they will need to create them in such a way that the screen reader can read the text for the blind person. Believe it or not, extracting the text contents from a pdf file is actually a very non-trivial problem. Mostly the problems are caused by pdf authoring tools that render each glyph separately. The text extractor then has no idea about which characters belong to each line and has to guess based on the baseline of the character. Another problem is non-ascii characters and how the authoring tool decides to render them. The venerable free software tool pdflatex uses composite characters (basically it renders multiple glyps on top of each other) which makes it impossible to accurately extract the text.
So no, it is not about stupidity or bad Microsoft softare. PDF just is unsuitable for accessable documents.
Look, if any diplomat in a cable wrote that he thinks Kim Il-Jong is a blowhard pedophile, then that diplomat is not being professional. Diplomacy is about being objective and mediating solutions. It is also one of the highest paid jobs there is, and if you spend your highly paid time gossiping about irrelevancies, then you deserve to be fired.
My opinion about my boss is not relevant when it comes to me doing my job at my workplace. Just as his opinion about me isn't, as long as I do my job. That is the difference between professional life and private.
Just don't do business with American hosting companies. The government may not realize it, but in the long run, the only ones who'll suffer from fucked up decisions like this one is the IT industry.
I'd say that at any point in your life, you shouldn't have more than 5% of your annual income in debt. You don't need that brand new car -- you can buy something affordable, and pay cash. I know buying a home is the "American dream", but how about saving up for it, managing your finances well and buying something you can afford? Or -- strange as this may sound -- renting one for life because you do not make enough to buy one. No one is entitled to anything.
Here's a simple trick I use when I am tempted to spend money - I just buy stocks instead. So, if I see a nice jacket that I like that costs $200, I just buy stocks for $200 instead. So, now I'm out of my discretionary spending, and I just invested more money. Happiness all around.
You buy stocks instead of clothes? Because you think everyday people waste their money on useless junk, like you? Not everyone can be a fortunate son like you. Your numbers are so out of touch with reality it isn't even funny. You can't buy a home anywhere in the world without incurring a debt that is many times your yearly salary. In my case, it was 5 times it because I'm making fairly good money and the apartment is small. In basically every city in the whole world there is a shortage of rentable apartments. No one is asking for a condo in downtown manhattan, just two rooms in some far out suburb. It is still hard to get. Then you have student loans. Most of us didn't have a college fund because our parents didn't have enough money to save anything. Unless you already are rich, there is no way in hell you can live a decent life without having more than 5% of your income in debt.
Is it even legal to store credit card info when you don't have any use for it? In other countries there are laws against retailers storing CC info because of the huge risks involved. They don't need the info after the purchase is made and a single rogue employee can cause havoc without any hacking involved.
That is very scandalous how a rich person can buy a DA like that. If everyone else who is getting pissed of by this signs this petition then maybe the decision can be reversed.
Can someone please explain what this Kinect thing is? I heard it was something Microsoft developed but despite that it is just as cool as if was Apple that made it. Please someone enlighten me, why do I want a Kinect?
The problem is that ALL porn are available for download. Therefore, no additional recognition is provided. Radiohead managed to get huge amounts of positive publicity by letting anyone download their music for free. But what do you think would happen if ALL bands did the same?
Totally wrong. There are almost no "copyright free" (whatever that means, it's not like many people explicitly label their porn public domain) porn. All porn you can find freely at sites like xvideos.com and pornhub.com are copyrighted. Their site staff has taken it and published it without permission from the copyright holder on their site. The other type of free porn are the 20-60 second low-res promo clips producers use to entice consumers to purchase a subscription. Maybe those clips would be enough for some people, but a fair number of customers would also decide to purchase the full scenes.
Money is very important to a company. Remember, the only reason why Oracle controls Java instead of Sun is because the latter totally failed to make any money on their language, despite it dominating the computer world.
The problem is that importing Facebook "friends" to gmail requires you to get access to their email address. Friends are in quotes, because Facebook friendship is more like shallow aquantances than friendship. Most of those people you don't want to share your email address with. It is a different thing entirely when people voluntarily give out their email addresses by signing up for Facebook apps, but in this case the email sharing would happen involuntarily.
How well browser implement a work in progress standard is fucking irrelevant. The spec is subject to change! This just helps cement design decisions that should be reversible if reasonable criticism can be levied against them.
FYI, most flash video is already streamed using h264. The options are plain old html + flash + h264 or html5 + h264. On Linux, there already are dozens of programs able to decode h264, none of which has gotten into any legal trouble. Adobe on the other hand, has actively been sending DMCA requests to any projects (such as rtmpdump) working on decoding the proprietary RTMP protocol which is integrated into flash streaming.
The names of the parameters are also part of the specification as published in the javadocs. Furthermore the coding style guidelines for the Java language, are fairly strict with regards to brace placement, brackets, variable names and so on. Therefore it is not inconceivable that large pieces of Google's implementation will be identical to Oracle's one if they are using the same coding style guidelines.
You don't have to worry about that. As an avid (and happy) Android user I can tell you: the open market is great, but the operating system is still a bit of a mess. Freezes, crashes and data losses are somewhat endemic. Each version is a little better, but it is years and years behind the iPhone for basic reliability, and all of the non-geek Android users I know plan to buy an iPhone when their contract is up. The geeks are happy and plan to stay.
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Why do you make up silly arguments that makes absolutely no sense?
Once, unions served a great and honourable purpose. Today, that purpose isn't as great and honourable as it once was, because the unions of yesteryear won the great battles to give us fair labour laws. The unions have few battles left to fight, and little intention of fighting the ones that actually matter.
Everytime someone spouts bullshit like that, I'm reminded of the McDonald's waitress that was raped while her supervisor was looking on. The corporate world won't ensure the protection of their workers on the workplace because it costs money. Ensuring the integrity of their slaves is counter productive because those people are harder to abuse. You know why the girl didn't resist or try to escape? Because she would have been FIRED on the spot for DISOBEYING her managers orders.
When it comes down to it, currently used interpreted languages are alive for a reason and generally you can choose any one you like and get to the goal without too much difficulty. Python, Perl, Ruby, even Powershell (as of 2k8r2 and 7) represent pretty capable languages to write in. Personal preference and available experience outweigh the technical differences in my opinion.
The reason you say this is because you have little to no experience with Ruby or Python. I can't comment on Powershell since I don't know it enough. Though I can say without doubt that Python and Ruby is a superior choice to Perl for new systems.
This is almost correlationisnotcausation worthy. All kinds of violent crime in those countries also decreased during the periods mentioned. There was also a huge number of other societal changes that took place during that period. The studies show that increased availability of porn does not lead to more rapes. They do not show that increased availability of porn leads to fewer rapes.
I know this is /. where people doesn't have any clue about money. But does anyone for a second think that a site that is chock full of ads and is the 90th most popular site in the world is not making money? The hosting costs for the site is at most a few hundred dollars per month. The income from advertising is at least $100k per month.
Even if the owners of tpb wouldn't be liable for copyright infringement, they are still guilty of tax evasion on a major scale since they haven't declared the income for it.
De-obfuscating obfuscated code is trivial.
When leading politicians in the worlds only remaining superpower calls for fatwas against people they disagree with, then yeah, you do begin to worry.
Besides, Bush isn't president anymore, Obama is. He was elected on a platform to increase government transparency. But the way his government has handled the wikileaks situation pretty much proves nothing has changed.
To make the documents accessible, they will need to create them in such a way that the screen reader can read the text for the blind person. Believe it or not, extracting the text contents from a pdf file is actually a very non-trivial problem. Mostly the problems are caused by pdf authoring tools that render each glyph separately. The text extractor then has no idea about which characters belong to each line and has to guess based on the baseline of the character. Another problem is non-ascii characters and how the authoring tool decides to render them. The venerable free software tool pdflatex uses composite characters (basically it renders multiple glyps on top of each other) which makes it impossible to accurately extract the text.
So no, it is not about stupidity or bad Microsoft softare. PDF just is unsuitable for accessable documents.
The truth: You are a sissy and your wife is fat.
Look, if any diplomat in a cable wrote that he thinks Kim Il-Jong is a blowhard pedophile, then that diplomat is not being professional. Diplomacy is about being objective and mediating solutions. It is also one of the highest paid jobs there is, and if you spend your highly paid time gossiping about irrelevancies, then you deserve to be fired.
My opinion about my boss is not relevant when it comes to me doing my job at my workplace. Just as his opinion about me isn't, as long as I do my job. That is the difference between professional life and private.
Hahaha. Yeah right.
Just don't do business with American hosting companies. The government may not realize it, but in the long run, the only ones who'll suffer from fucked up decisions like this one is the IT industry.
I'd say that at any point in your life, you shouldn't have more than 5% of your annual income in debt. You don't need that brand new car -- you can buy something affordable, and pay cash. I know buying a home is the "American dream", but how about saving up for it, managing your finances well and buying something you can afford? Or -- strange as this may sound -- renting one for life because you do not make enough to buy one. No one is entitled to anything. Here's a simple trick I use when I am tempted to spend money - I just buy stocks instead. So, if I see a nice jacket that I like that costs $200, I just buy stocks for $200 instead. So, now I'm out of my discretionary spending, and I just invested more money. Happiness all around.
You buy stocks instead of clothes? Because you think everyday people waste their money on useless junk, like you? Not everyone can be a fortunate son like you. Your numbers are so out of touch with reality it isn't even funny. You can't buy a home anywhere in the world without incurring a debt that is many times your yearly salary. In my case, it was 5 times it because I'm making fairly good money and the apartment is small. In basically every city in the whole world there is a shortage of rentable apartments. No one is asking for a condo in downtown manhattan, just two rooms in some far out suburb. It is still hard to get. Then you have student loans. Most of us didn't have a college fund because our parents didn't have enough money to save anything. Unless you already are rich, there is no way in hell you can live a decent life without having more than 5% of your income in debt.
Is it even legal to store credit card info when you don't have any use for it? In other countries there are laws against retailers storing CC info because of the huge risks involved. They don't need the info after the purchase is made and a single rogue employee can cause havoc without any hacking involved.
That is very scandalous how a rich person can buy a DA like that. If everyone else who is getting pissed of by this signs this petition then maybe the decision can be reversed.
Can someone please explain what this Kinect thing is? I heard it was something Microsoft developed but despite that it is just as cool as if was Apple that made it. Please someone enlighten me, why do I want a Kinect?
The problem is that ALL porn are available for download. Therefore, no additional recognition is provided. Radiohead managed to get huge amounts of positive publicity by letting anyone download their music for free. But what do you think would happen if ALL bands did the same?
Totally wrong. There are almost no "copyright free" (whatever that means, it's not like many people explicitly label their porn public domain) porn. All porn you can find freely at sites like xvideos.com and pornhub.com are copyrighted. Their site staff has taken it and published it without permission from the copyright holder on their site. The other type of free porn are the 20-60 second low-res promo clips producers use to entice consumers to purchase a subscription. Maybe those clips would be enough for some people, but a fair number of customers would also decide to purchase the full scenes.
Money is very important to a company. Remember, the only reason why Oracle controls Java instead of Sun is because the latter totally failed to make any money on their language, despite it dominating the computer world.
The problem is that importing Facebook "friends" to gmail requires you to get access to their email address. Friends are in quotes, because Facebook friendship is more like shallow aquantances than friendship. Most of those people you don't want to share your email address with. It is a different thing entirely when people voluntarily give out their email addresses by signing up for Facebook apps, but in this case the email sharing would happen involuntarily.
How well browser implement a work in progress standard is fucking irrelevant. The spec is subject to change! This just helps cement design decisions that should be reversible if reasonable criticism can be levied against them.
FYI, most flash video is already streamed using h264. The options are plain old html + flash + h264 or html5 + h264. On Linux, there already are dozens of programs able to decode h264, none of which has gotten into any legal trouble. Adobe on the other hand, has actively been sending DMCA requests to any projects (such as rtmpdump) working on decoding the proprietary RTMP protocol which is integrated into flash streaming.
The names of the parameters are also part of the specification as published in the javadocs. Furthermore the coding style guidelines for the Java language, are fairly strict with regards to brace placement, brackets, variable names and so on. Therefore it is not inconceivable that large pieces of Google's implementation will be identical to Oracle's one if they are using the same coding style guidelines.
So anyone entering a password on a non-HTTPS encrypted page deserves to have their account details stolen?
You don't have to worry about that. As an avid (and happy) Android user I can tell you: the open market is great, but the operating system is still a bit of a mess. Freezes, crashes and data losses are somewhat endemic. Each version is a little better, but it is years and years behind the iPhone for basic reliability, and all of the non-geek Android users I know plan to buy an iPhone when their contract is up. The geeks are happy and plan to stay.
How on earth can you be HAPPY with that???