Depends on how long it took to write. If it took him 3 hours, and he charges $100/hour (reasonable if he's some amateur) then pay him $300. Very, very simple. If it saves 1 million man hours, then it's a net win for the human race . Yay.
Yes. Exactly. Fucking selfish, capitalist pigs is what they are. And why shouldn't they be, as long as we as a society allow them to continue doing this? They don't just want to make money off of their WORK, they want to make money for it once, and then make money again without doing any more work, and then continue to make money for it, over and over and OVER again without ever doing a fucking thing. People should be paid for the actual work they do, not indefinitely. It is that simple.
Apple users are used to paying for costly proprietary applications, so of course there is a better revenue opportunity. I just find it so disgusting that there are so many developers all of a sudden interested in making money from their code. It seems Apple is doing more to destroy the environment created by the open source community than any other company...
Is it really? If so that is sad. Open Source software seems to exemplify the Communist ideals of shared ownership and development for the public good that China purports to adhere to. I've often felt that Open Source software was the best way for Western nations to get away from capitalism in a way that is truly democratic and not controlled by any single, despotic rulers. I hope China embraces this new company and more follow-suit soon!
Usually, simply having to go to the trouble of creating an account on a particular site is enough to deter me from leaving comments, even when I want to. (Thankfully I've had an account on Slashdot for so long!) Do I really need a $1 fee to deter me as well? This certainly won't affect me. They need to focus on making it *easier* to encourage more people to leave comments, not more difficult!
As I've said many times in the past, Google has done absolutely nothing wrong. People are 100% free to collect any and ALL insecure, unencrypted wireless data that I send out any time. That's just the way it is. All of this makes me SO mad...governments going after Google for nothing! It's absurd. They want to do this just so that people can continue living in ignorance of how exposed they are? It's pathetic...and as others have pointed out, a huge waste of taxpayer money. Google has nothing to apologize for. Hell, they should take the data they sniffed and send ads based on it!
How very bizarre... I live in Minneapolis as well, in uptown in fact, one of the neighbourhoods which I would say is still trying to hold on at least a little bit. And what do we find here? They try to gentrify everything by putting chain stores in...Victoria secret, Urban Outfitters, McDonald's, Arby's, Rainbow, Starbucks, T-Mobile, on and on... And this is in a "good" neighbourhood! You go downtown and you hardly can find any independent places, it's chains everywhere, and lest we not forget how awful the suburbs are! Obviously there are exceptions like you pointed out--and I'm glad--but they are few and far between.
I really don't know anything about your business statistics...maybe they're a sign that Europe is following in our footsteps, which is sad, but what I'm talking about is only what I see when I walk down the street right now. I've been all over Europe, but the majority of my time has been spent in cities in Germany and the UK. I am always delighted by the abundance of shops and restaurants, pretty much everywhere you go. Yes, they have their Starbucks, McDonald's, and Tesco everywhere too, just not nearly as much as we do. Instead you've got an offie on every corner, with chippy or a kebab shop next to it, bakeries, grocers, butchers, you name it... We just don't get that here. Hardly saying it's perfect, but it's one of the biggest motivators for me to want leave this awful city and move over there!
I think this is a *great* idea, but I do not find it even remotely acceptable for government money to be spent on closed-source software, especially when that proprietary software requires me to purchase a proprietary operating system to run it on. It appears to have been developed by or in cooperation with some private company called "Virtual Heroes". We need to do something about this, and demand that all the source code be released...
So where do you live, exactly? I've been in cities all around the U.S. and have seen basically the same thing everywhere. Perhaps in some really small towns independent businesses have been able to hang on a little bit longer, but there's always a Walmart or something else that goes up to eliminate them eventually.
And there are a LOT more small businesses in Europe than in the U.S... I was actually going to use that in a counter-example in my previous post but decided it wasn't relevant. I'm talking actual, retail store-front businesses here... Not "professionals" such as lawyers, accountants, independent contractors (such as myself), etc. that are typically independent. You just have to walk down any European city-centre and you'll pass independent businesses everywhere. Here it's extremely difficult. Not saying Europe is immune to corporatism by any means, just that they're behind us in allowing it to completely take over.
As for the business travellers--that was exactly my point. They shouldn't be flying at all, but the real reason they are doing it is not because they need to, but because they enjoy it. They want to "network," play golf and socialize,and basically waste all of our money (whether as investors or customers paying higher prices for products). It's a pretty appalling practice in this day and age!
Uh, what world are you living in? You must be in the U.S. if you fly on SW... I'd be thrilled to find a place here where small, independent businesses are actually thriving, but one doesn't exist. Of course there are still some struggling for survival, but they are falling at an accelerating rate and there is no end in sight. I hardly think this is some kind of outlandish statement I'm making--it's pretty common knowledge. If we are on "different pages" it is because you are flat-out in denial!
Southwest doesn't fly out of the country, so the fact that you would limit yourself so severely I find extremely sad. You're hardly the first American with this problem, though...the majority never even go out and see the world which sadly has a lot to do with why people are so ignorant and racist here.
Also remember the vast majority of air travel is for business purposes, and those people are under the impression that they *don't* have a choice to just not fly. Of course in reality they could just as easily video-conference, but that's a different subject all together.
Actually no, I had considered seeing the film but never got around to it.
Capitalism isn't exactly "incompatible" with democracy, however it creates a heavily class-based society, relying on a very large middle and lower class with less education. And a majority of the population having less education than the rest *is* incompatible with democracy. If we were able to properly educate everyone, it might be a different story... But now most people don't even know when they are being had... They'll happily shop at Walmart, even if they consider themselves "liberal" simply because the dollar rules, and they want whatever is cheapest.
The mom-and-pops are already out of business. So when we are talking about "corporations," it's really only large ones. The whole point of this article is that corporations are unable to achieve all three of these goals, so their new goal is to form a monopoly, that way they don't have to worry about making customers happy because customers have no other choice (I work for an airline--believe me, I know!). They don't have to care if the employees are happy because the economy is in such poor shape that a great many people are grateful for any kind of job. So it all comes back to profiting as much as possible no matter the cost...
If people really want this free-market capitalist monstrosity, then they need to accept the fact that what is best for the *company* always comes first. It really irritates me every time I hear people complaining that a corporation is not thinking of its customers first, or its employees... That is not a corporations job. They're one and only job is to make money for their shareholders.
If you don't like this--as you shouldn't--then the system itself is what needs to be changed. Don't blame the individual companies--they are doing exactly what we have set them up to do. Capitalism itself is the enemy.
I've got a Symbian S60 device myself, an aging Nokia N73... I can't wait to switch to a more modern Linux-based operating system. Even Nokia has dumped it on their N-series devices! I tried writing some PyS60 apps for mine, but it was just too slow and underpowered. I can't have more than one app open at a time because it has so little memory...but it did do a lot with a little.
Hmm, where did you see that? The last benchmark I saw posted to Slashdot put Chrome ahead of it. I'm sure Chrome and Firefox will continue to steal features from each other, and from new extensions people write... No real worries there.
The 120 million users included every mobile device that had it factory-installed, I imagine... This is not a choice educated users are making, they don't even know about it more than likely! I use Opera Mini on old phones that don't have a better alternative available, but that's not at all the same as desktop use.
All of this misses the primary point, however...it's proprietary. Until they release their source code under a decent license, it cannot even be considered as a viable option. They've seemingly tried hard to adhere to standards so I have to respect that. And competition is good, as long as it is open competition, not this closed, potentially insecure, binary-only nonsense.
Perhaps, but who cares? Let those sites break. Sites should display identically on every browser and adhere to all standards, not utilizing any browser qwirks. If they don't they are badly designed pages, plain and simple. It's not the browser's responsibility to compensate for an incompetent web developer.
We now have TWO excellent open-source browsers available, one of which (Chrome) kicks Opera's ass in the one advantage it used to have over Firefox (speed), and Firefox continues to be far superior as a general browser thanks to the available extensions. There is no reason for anyone to continue using proprietary browsers such as Opera or IE.
Once the Opera source code is released under an Open Source license, THAT will be news. Until then, please no more Opera stories...just let it die in peace.
Well if those people are really making $15,000, then they are already earning the U.S. minimum wage, so it's fine. It's the people in China and other 3rd world countries that are earning $1/day that need to be helped. Ukraine is actually rather well-off in comparison.
All that tax revenue needs to go directly back to the people who are being exploited, working for lower wages than their would-be American counterparts. If the U.S. government starts making money through this offshoring, it would be reprehensible!
I think a better solution would be to require that any company selling products in the U.S. abide by all of our laws with regard to their own employees, specifically with regard to the federal minimum wage...
I've never met one, but most Mob hitmen are likely much more honourable than U.S. soldiers who shoot first--and indiscriminately--and ask questions later. Killing is never acceptable, but at least a mob hitman has a single target which he or she takes out without involving innocent people. Soldiers pretend to care about that, but in reality, they always put their own lives ahead of anyone else, and almost never do they have to stand trial for their "mistakes."
First off, this appears to be a pathetic grab by a third-rate TV station to make a story out of nothing, targeting all the pro-military nut-jobs. They know they will jump on anything with the word "military" in it.
Secondly...a contract's a contract. If the contract provided for a way for her to get out of it (e.g. if she moved into an area where they provided no service), then they were wrong, and they corrected the error. If not, then SHE was wrong and should have had to pay, and Verizon was *extremely* nice to her, much more so than it needed to be. People need to stop complaining about service contracts that they voluntarily sign into!
This has nothing to do with her husband being in the military or dying. I get so sick of these military people whining and complaining as if they didn't know what they were getting themselves into... Come on! It's the military! If you sign up (or marry someone who signs up) to murder people, there is a very high chance of them being killed. Deal with it, don't complain and expect all this special treatment! The nerve of some of these people is truly unbelievable...
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Depends on how long it took to write. If it took him 3 hours, and he charges $100/hour (reasonable if he's some amateur) then pay him $300. Very, very simple. If it saves 1 million man hours, then it's a net win for the human race . Yay.
Yes. Exactly. Fucking selfish, capitalist pigs is what they are. And why shouldn't they be, as long as we as a society allow them to continue doing this? They don't just want to make money off of their WORK, they want to make money for it once, and then make money again without doing any more work, and then continue to make money for it, over and over and OVER again without ever doing a fucking thing. People should be paid for the actual work they do, not indefinitely. It is that simple.
Apple users are used to paying for costly proprietary applications, so of course there is a better revenue opportunity. I just find it so disgusting that there are so many developers all of a sudden interested in making money from their code. It seems Apple is doing more to destroy the environment created by the open source community than any other company...
What is this mysterious portal thing? A quick "apt-cache search portal" doesn't reveal much of interest besides:
dotlrn - e-learning portal system based on OpenACS
liblemonldap-ng-portal-perl - Lemonldap::NG authentication portal part
Is it really? If so that is sad. Open Source software seems to exemplify the Communist ideals of shared ownership and development for the public good that China purports to adhere to. I've often felt that Open Source software was the best way for Western nations to get away from capitalism in a way that is truly democratic and not controlled by any single, despotic rulers. I hope China embraces this new company and more follow-suit soon!
Usually, simply having to go to the trouble of creating an account on a particular site is enough to deter me from leaving comments, even when I want to. (Thankfully I've had an account on Slashdot for so long!) Do I really need a $1 fee to deter me as well? This certainly won't affect me. They need to focus on making it *easier* to encourage more people to leave comments, not more difficult!
As I've said many times in the past, Google has done absolutely nothing wrong. People are 100% free to collect any and ALL insecure, unencrypted wireless data that I send out any time. That's just the way it is. All of this makes me SO mad...governments going after Google for nothing! It's absurd. They want to do this just so that people can continue living in ignorance of how exposed they are? It's pathetic...and as others have pointed out, a huge waste of taxpayer money. Google has nothing to apologize for. Hell, they should take the data they sniffed and send ads based on it!
How very bizarre... I live in Minneapolis as well, in uptown in fact, one of the neighbourhoods which I would say is still trying to hold on at least a little bit. And what do we find here? They try to gentrify everything by putting chain stores in...Victoria secret, Urban Outfitters, McDonald's, Arby's, Rainbow, Starbucks, T-Mobile, on and on... And this is in a "good" neighbourhood! You go downtown and you hardly can find any independent places, it's chains everywhere, and lest we not forget how awful the suburbs are! Obviously there are exceptions like you pointed out--and I'm glad--but they are few and far between.
I really don't know anything about your business statistics...maybe they're a sign that Europe is following in our footsteps, which is sad, but what I'm talking about is only what I see when I walk down the street right now. I've been all over Europe, but the majority of my time has been spent in cities in Germany and the UK. I am always delighted by the abundance of shops and restaurants, pretty much everywhere you go. Yes, they have their Starbucks, McDonald's, and Tesco everywhere too, just not nearly as much as we do. Instead you've got an offie on every corner, with chippy or a kebab shop next to it, bakeries, grocers, butchers, you name it... We just don't get that here. Hardly saying it's perfect, but it's one of the biggest motivators for me to want leave this awful city and move over there!
I think this is a *great* idea, but I do not find it even remotely acceptable for government money to be spent on closed-source software, especially when that proprietary software requires me to purchase a proprietary operating system to run it on. It appears to have been developed by or in cooperation with some private company called "Virtual Heroes". We need to do something about this, and demand that all the source code be released...
So where do you live, exactly? I've been in cities all around the U.S. and have seen basically the same thing everywhere. Perhaps in some really small towns independent businesses have been able to hang on a little bit longer, but there's always a Walmart or something else that goes up to eliminate them eventually.
And there are a LOT more small businesses in Europe than in the U.S... I was actually going to use that in a counter-example in my previous post but decided it wasn't relevant. I'm talking actual, retail store-front businesses here... Not "professionals" such as lawyers, accountants, independent contractors (such as myself), etc. that are typically independent. You just have to walk down any European city-centre and you'll pass independent businesses everywhere. Here it's extremely difficult. Not saying Europe is immune to corporatism by any means, just that they're behind us in allowing it to completely take over.
As for the business travellers--that was exactly my point. They shouldn't be flying at all, but the real reason they are doing it is not because they need to, but because they enjoy it. They want to "network," play golf and socialize ,and basically waste all of our money (whether as investors or customers paying higher prices for products). It's a pretty appalling practice in this day and age!
Uh, what world are you living in? You must be in the U.S. if you fly on SW... I'd be thrilled to find a place here where small, independent businesses are actually thriving, but one doesn't exist. Of course there are still some struggling for survival, but they are falling at an accelerating rate and there is no end in sight. I hardly think this is some kind of outlandish statement I'm making--it's pretty common knowledge. If we are on "different pages" it is because you are flat-out in denial!
Southwest doesn't fly out of the country, so the fact that you would limit yourself so severely I find extremely sad. You're hardly the first American with this problem, though...the majority never even go out and see the world which sadly has a lot to do with why people are so ignorant and racist here.
Also remember the vast majority of air travel is for business purposes, and those people are under the impression that they *don't* have a choice to just not fly. Of course in reality they could just as easily video-conference, but that's a different subject all together.
Actually no, I had considered seeing the film but never got around to it.
Capitalism isn't exactly "incompatible" with democracy, however it creates a heavily class-based society, relying on a very large middle and lower class with less education. And a majority of the population having less education than the rest *is* incompatible with democracy. If we were able to properly educate everyone, it might be a different story... But now most people don't even know when they are being had... They'll happily shop at Walmart, even if they consider themselves "liberal" simply because the dollar rules, and they want whatever is cheapest.
The mom-and-pops are already out of business. So when we are talking about "corporations," it's really only large ones. The whole point of this article is that corporations are unable to achieve all three of these goals, so their new goal is to form a monopoly, that way they don't have to worry about making customers happy because customers have no other choice (I work for an airline--believe me, I know!). They don't have to care if the employees are happy because the economy is in such poor shape that a great many people are grateful for any kind of job. So it all comes back to profiting as much as possible no matter the cost...
If people really want this free-market capitalist monstrosity, then they need to accept the fact that what is best for the *company* always comes first. It really irritates me every time I hear people complaining that a corporation is not thinking of its customers first, or its employees... That is not a corporations job. They're one and only job is to make money for their shareholders.
If you don't like this--as you shouldn't--then the system itself is what needs to be changed. Don't blame the individual companies--they are doing exactly what we have set them up to do. Capitalism itself is the enemy.
I've got a Symbian S60 device myself, an aging Nokia N73... I can't wait to switch to a more modern Linux-based operating system. Even Nokia has dumped it on their N-series devices! I tried writing some PyS60 apps for mine, but it was just too slow and underpowered. I can't have more than one app open at a time because it has so little memory...but it did do a lot with a little.
Hmm, where did you see that? The last benchmark I saw posted to Slashdot put Chrome ahead of it. I'm sure Chrome and Firefox will continue to steal features from each other, and from new extensions people write... No real worries there.
The 120 million users included every mobile device that had it factory-installed, I imagine... This is not a choice educated users are making, they don't even know about it more than likely! I use Opera Mini on old phones that don't have a better alternative available, but that's not at all the same as desktop use.
All of this misses the primary point, however...it's proprietary. Until they release their source code under a decent license, it cannot even be considered as a viable option. They've seemingly tried hard to adhere to standards so I have to respect that. And competition is good, as long as it is open competition, not this closed, potentially insecure, binary-only nonsense.
We do! I swear, I totally hung out with a "normal" last week! :-P
Ask their geek friends who read Slashdot.
Perhaps, but who cares? Let those sites break. Sites should display identically on every browser and adhere to all standards, not utilizing any browser qwirks. If they don't they are badly designed pages, plain and simple. It's not the browser's responsibility to compensate for an incompetent web developer.
We now have TWO excellent open-source browsers available, one of which (Chrome) kicks Opera's ass in the one advantage it used to have over Firefox (speed), and Firefox continues to be far superior as a general browser thanks to the available extensions. There is no reason for anyone to continue using proprietary browsers such as Opera or IE.
Once the Opera source code is released under an Open Source license, THAT will be news. Until then, please no more Opera stories...just let it die in peace.
Well if those people are really making $15,000, then they are already earning the U.S. minimum wage, so it's fine. It's the people in China and other 3rd world countries that are earning $1/day that need to be helped. Ukraine is actually rather well-off in comparison.
All that tax revenue needs to go directly back to the people who are being exploited, working for lower wages than their would-be American counterparts. If the U.S. government starts making money through this offshoring, it would be reprehensible!
I think a better solution would be to require that any company selling products in the U.S. abide by all of our laws with regard to their own employees, specifically with regard to the federal minimum wage...
I've never met one, but most Mob hitmen are likely much more honourable than U.S. soldiers who shoot first--and indiscriminately--and ask questions later. Killing is never acceptable, but at least a mob hitman has a single target which he or she takes out without involving innocent people. Soldiers pretend to care about that, but in reality, they always put their own lives ahead of anyone else, and almost never do they have to stand trial for their "mistakes."
First off, this appears to be a pathetic grab by a third-rate TV station to make a story out of nothing, targeting all the pro-military nut-jobs. They know they will jump on anything with the word "military" in it.
Secondly...a contract's a contract. If the contract provided for a way for her to get out of it (e.g. if she moved into an area where they provided no service), then they were wrong, and they corrected the error. If not, then SHE was wrong and should have had to pay, and Verizon was *extremely* nice to her, much more so than it needed to be. People need to stop complaining about service contracts that they voluntarily sign into!
This has nothing to do with her husband being in the military or dying. I get so sick of these military people whining and complaining as if they didn't know what they were getting themselves into... Come on! It's the military! If you sign up (or marry someone who signs up) to murder people, there is a very high chance of them being killed. Deal with it, don't complain and expect all this special treatment! The nerve of some of these people is truly unbelievable...
Back in the year 2000 with you!