Doesn't take much to shuffle the basket aside, perhaps replace the refrigerated/frozen food items so they don't spoil and head out.
It may be inconvenient to go to another store, but I'm not the type of person who would steal for convenience's sake.
While that would make sense if you knew that there was no way to pay ahead of time, by the time I'm done looking at items, deciding what I want to eat, and picking it up, I may have spent 30 minutes. It's an implicit bargin that I would be allowed to purchase those items that made me spend the time. I mean, it's more likely that I'll pay the next day (and I would intend to) than that the store will reimburse me for my time.
Well, it was as true about Microsoft 10 years ago as it is now. And they've done pretty well over the past 10 years. But even that is a bad analogy because software uniquely doesn't degrade. So look at other peddlers of consumables.
How about Sears? Coke/Pepsi? Every chain resturant that's already hit saturation (McD's, BK, etc)?
Every business goes through logonormal growth. If you can identify where you are in the growth curve before anyone else you can make some money. But all growth looks the same or the company dies early.
DVDs don't crash because some jag-off decided to run Java code between frames of my movie. DVDs don't make me worry about version numbers, patching my player, or any of that jazz. And that's just technical.
I have a DVD player in every computer, and connected to each TV - meaning portability. All my friends have DVD players. It's easier to find movies on DVD.
DVDs are cheaper.
I have a huge collection of DVD's. I'm not going to repurchase everything.
Next will be going back to solid state non-spinning media. People don't change formats for picture quality (see: Betamax). They change for convenience/durability.
But instead of asking "should I give IT a login account on a server that is not owned or managed by them?" perhaps you should ask "should I give IT a login account on a server that is on their network?"
Or, instead of asking "should I give IT a login account", ask "Why shouldn't I give IT a login account?" Seriously, this is a special purpose server. It doesn't store anything sensitive or valuable. Why not just give IT root access, and ask them to take over the backups/patches/hardening/etc. that they want to do anyway. Or are you also running a porn site?
I actually have trouble understanding why hackers just completely lose their shit when the law is involved. It's an interesting and complex system that any real hacker should relish understanding and, well, hacking. Instead we get trite bullshit like "the judge was biased".
The law has built in fuzzy logic (was what you did a "reasonable" measure?). The law also has many, sometimes contradictory, built in rules. Therefore, while plenty of dull, unambiguous law is a lot like code, a good deal of the rest of the practice of law is getting people to agree to your ambiguous interpretation. Code doesn't work like that. That ambiguity scares a lot of hackers.
Sorry to reply to myself, but I just understood the church thing. Congress passed a law in 1972 specifically allowing churches to discriminate, making an exemption to anti-discrimination laws. It got overturned at a lower level for a first amendment violation. The Supreme Court later ruled, in 1987, that it was government allowing churches, which are already promoting religion, more rights with regard to promoting religion, overturning the earlier ruling of unconstitutionality.
Presumably, Congress could just change the law if it wanted to protect janitors.
First, the standard IANAL. Thanks for asking, cause I looked it up. The Supreme Court changed this back in 1987, so now churches can make janitors take a religious test, since their purpose is the promotion of religion (thank you Mormons). Of course, companies still cannot, because their purpose is non-religious (I think small companies are exempted from this).
The Boy Scouts aren't paying kids/scoutleaders, so it's a membership, not employment situation. And I believe gay people aren't protected anyway, except at the state level.
According to my internet searches, the Hooters lawsuit was about heavy, not small-titted, waitresses. Apparently it is still unsettled. Michigan makes weight based discrimination illegal, Hooters claims that the girls are entertainers who happen to serve food.
I think it's just as valid to say that Japan's earthquakes are a paid cost that the rest of the world no longer has to absorb by having earthquakes in their region.
Not really. The pressure an earthquake relieves is extremely local. The plates are huge and a very small (relative to the plate) change results in a huge earthquake.
Uh, no, the GP didn't mention education at all. Where did you pull that rant from?
I made it more intelligentible, but:
They have to be, and what's more, they have to want it more in order to put up with the stereotypical nerdrage(/nerdlust/nerdmysogyny/nerdetc...) which is all but inescapable in tech circles.
That burnout primarilly happens in college, in my experience.
here exists a multidimensional spectrum of abilities, some people are lower in some or even all dimensions than others. If you have a modicum of talent, enough to bump you up on one or more axis, the you will encounter people better and worse than you. "Want" is irrelevant.
This again misses the point. You said that there would be a wide variety of talent in a discussion about programming talent. Acting as though you perceive a greater truth when all I did was make explicit a tacit implication we were building off is not being clever. I was making the point that there's no reason to have such a wide spectrum... good companies don't keep crappy programmers.
The technically literate will have a much better experience with linux on the desktop as they will have a acumen to find software and troubleshoot when needed.
And when I tried looking for a C++ IDE in it, I got... nothing. It's seriously hard to find what I want there, with the exception of some proprietary software (e.g. Flash).
The technically literate will have a much better experience with linux on the desktop as they will have a acumen to find software and troubleshoot when needed.
I'm pretty technically literate. But to switch to Linux involves a lot of relearning things that i already knew how to do/finding software to replace what I already had. I can work around issues. I just value my time more than that.
That said, I use Ubuntu on one computer, and Flash installed fine for me, quite easily, and works.
Working naked would be so much more comfortable in general.
I'm more comfortable working with a dress-shirt on than a tee-shirt. I'm sure I'm more comfortable with shirt than none. Please stop assuming that everyone else feels as you do.
As to those who would think about butt sweat and germs, well, each person can just bring their own towel to sit on
So, it'll be like sharing machines at the gym... because that system never fails?
If you work in a place that they have to be better to show they're as good, or one in which they have to be determined in order to stay due to the misogyny, then you work in a backwards place full of cavemen...I'd suggest you go work somewhere that's moved on from a 70s mindset.
Huh, that's not a real response. The GP said that women tend to be better because the education system tends to be skewed against letting women skate through in technical fields. So the lower tier doesn't make it to the workplace, but change majors. This reflects what I know from people still in university schools.
Therefore, the average female coder is probably better than the average male coder. But that's a stupid and misleading statement anyway, because it implies that women make better programmers and inverses the correlation. (Two out of the last three female programmers I interviewed were horrible.)
In a decent workplace you have women and men of a variety of different skill levels.
I don't know why I'd ever want a less talented programmer on a team. I really want everyone else to be better than I am.
Put it this way: have prospective employees at nudist resorts gained the right to get hired while refusing to undress? Have non-believers the right to get hired by churches or similar despite rejecting the beliefs?
I'm not sure about the first one, but on the second case: yes. A church can refuse to hire a pastor that's an atheist or a different religion, because the religion is tied to job performance. A church cannot use a religious test to hire a janitor.
Well... You can require a particular uniform for a job. And I doubt somebody hired as a stripper would have much luck suing for the right to do their job fully clothed.
A stripper's nudity is not incidental to her job, like it would be for a programmer.
In very similar rules, you cannot hire only men unless there's a reason a woman really cannot do that job (e.g. being a male actor.) And you cannot force someone to have sex as a condition of employment, except as a porn star.
You do not deprive the person of any property, so it cannot be stealing.
Exclusivity is property. That's why tresspassing is forbidden, the owner has exclusive use of that land. It's not like I'm taking anything, and after I leave it looks exactly the same.
Your almost better off stealing a CD from a store than downloading it from a torrent. You cannot tell me that this isn't ridiculous and retain any credibility at all.
That is ridiculous. The problem is that copyright is civil. If it were criminal, they would have non-fine options, like community service.
Copyrights and patents are for similar purposes -- to provide incentive for creativity
Patents exist to encourage publication... otherwise, the oft-overlooked 4th branch of intellectual property - trade secrets - can come into play. Non-transferable, there are mechanisms in the law for their preservation. However, there are no protections from independent discovery. Of course, some trade secrets can retain their value long after a patent has expired.
A quick domain name lookupwhich is free and public informationwill give you those details, which we acquiredâ"you know, being a newspaper with research capabilities and allâ"of our own accord (although some are trying to claim this information as their own âoediscoveryâ as a way to promote their own personal website! But enough of that)
For a "professional organisation" that is absolutely incredible. First of all they steal his content. Then they edit it to try and make it look like it wasn't stolen. And then they edit it again to actually make fun of the guy they stole it from.
It is incredible. Not because they refused to give attribution to a blog; it's a human interest piece where attribution isn't really necessary. Instead, it's incredible because it is truly horrible writing. I don't normally correct grammar online. If people communicate information effectively, I can overlook grammar. But newspapers should be held to a higher standard, donchathink?
have numerous (dozen or more) relatives that have migrated to Mac who prior to the migration would always have some spyware or virus on their Windows system, even a botnet client or two. Post migration, I have yet to hear of any slowdowns, erratic behavior or even systems problems (aside from meatspace issues like wrist pain from computer use, etc)
See that, even the malware on OS X is better written!
Of course, nobody in finance was capable of recognizing that the labor costs of the people they'd derailed far exceeded the middle-level idiot who insisted that everything be done in the first place.
Wait, you didn't have a TPS code for filling out TPS sheets?
On the item in total, maybe (50% is around average for retail markups... but Best Buy's markup on big ticket items is far less than that, while sodas and candy have a bigger percentage increase to offset that.) On the return/resell transaction, no. That will lead to companies trying to prevent returns, through either making it more difficult, charging a 50% restocking fee, etc.
Also, if you think about what would happen in the big case, it would encourage people to buy/return/rebuy (or have a friend rebuy). Which would lead to all goods being 50% off.
Also many places are not obliged to permit returns unless the packaging is unopened, or the item is incorrect in some way (defective, damaged, not what was ordered etc).
Online sure. Check out a retail store sometime. Most have a 90 day return policy if you still have all the packaging, etc.
I would gladly raise my own tax rates by 5% if it applied to everyone making as much as I am or more
My tax rates are too low. I'll gladly vote to change it. I'm not going to change it unilaterally. Or, to be more annoyingly condescending, Here you go.
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While that would make sense if you knew that there was no way to pay ahead of time, by the time I'm done looking at items, deciding what I want to eat, and picking it up, I may have spent 30 minutes. It's an implicit bargin that I would be allowed to purchase those items that made me spend the time. I mean, it's more likely that I'll pay the next day (and I would intend to) than that the store will reimburse me for my time.
Well, it was as true about Microsoft 10 years ago as it is now. And they've done pretty well over the past 10 years. But even that is a bad analogy because software uniquely doesn't degrade. So look at other peddlers of consumables.
How about Sears? Coke/Pepsi? Every chain resturant that's already hit saturation (McD's, BK, etc)?
Every business goes through logonormal growth. If you can identify where you are in the growth curve before anyone else you can make some money. But all growth looks the same or the company dies early.
DVDs don't crash because some jag-off decided to run Java code between frames of my movie. DVDs don't make me worry about version numbers, patching my player, or any of that jazz. And that's just technical.
I have a DVD player in every computer, and connected to each TV - meaning portability. All my friends have DVD players. It's easier to find movies on DVD.
DVDs are cheaper.
I have a huge collection of DVD's. I'm not going to repurchase everything.
Next will be going back to solid state non-spinning media. People don't change formats for picture quality (see: Betamax). They change for convenience/durability.
Or, instead of asking "should I give IT a login account", ask "Why shouldn't I give IT a login account?" Seriously, this is a special purpose server. It doesn't store anything sensitive or valuable. Why not just give IT root access, and ask them to take over the backups/patches/hardening/etc. that they want to do anyway. Or are you also running a porn site?
The law has built in fuzzy logic (was what you did a "reasonable" measure?). The law also has many, sometimes contradictory, built in rules. Therefore, while plenty of dull, unambiguous law is a lot like code, a good deal of the rest of the practice of law is getting people to agree to your ambiguous interpretation. Code doesn't work like that. That ambiguity scares a lot of hackers.
IANAL, but I do enjoy reading the law.
Sorry to reply to myself, but I just understood the church thing. Congress passed a law in 1972 specifically allowing churches to discriminate, making an exemption to anti-discrimination laws. It got overturned at a lower level for a first amendment violation. The Supreme Court later ruled, in 1987, that it was government allowing churches, which are already promoting religion, more rights with regard to promoting religion, overturning the earlier ruling of unconstitutionality.
Presumably, Congress could just change the law if it wanted to protect janitors.
First, the standard IANAL. Thanks for asking, cause I looked it up. The Supreme Court changed this back in 1987, so now churches can make janitors take a religious test, since their purpose is the promotion of religion (thank you Mormons). Of course, companies still cannot, because their purpose is non-religious (I think small companies are exempted from this).
The Boy Scouts aren't paying kids/scoutleaders, so it's a membership, not employment situation. And I believe gay people aren't protected anyway, except at the state level.
According to my internet searches, the Hooters lawsuit was about heavy, not small-titted, waitresses. Apparently it is still unsettled. Michigan makes weight based discrimination illegal, Hooters claims that the girls are entertainers who happen to serve food.
More on exemptions here.
Not really. The pressure an earthquake relieves is extremely local. The plates are huge and a very small (relative to the plate) change results in a huge earthquake.
I made it more intelligentible, but:
They have to be, and what's more, they have to want it more in order to put up with the stereotypical nerdrage(/nerdlust/nerdmysogyny/nerdetc...) which is all but inescapable in tech circles.
That burnout primarilly happens in college, in my experience.
This again misses the point. You said that there would be a wide variety of talent in a discussion about programming talent. Acting as though you perceive a greater truth when all I did was make explicit a tacit implication we were building off is not being clever. I was making the point that there's no reason to have such a wide spectrum... good companies don't keep crappy programmers.
And when I tried looking for a C++ IDE in it, I got... nothing. It's seriously hard to find what I want there, with the exception of some proprietary software (e.g. Flash).
I'm pretty technically literate. But to switch to Linux involves a lot of relearning things that i already knew how to do/finding software to replace what I already had. I can work around issues. I just value my time more than that.
That said, I use Ubuntu on one computer, and Flash installed fine for me, quite easily, and works.
They already fixed that problem. They're only hiring female programmers. No shit, first line in TFA.
How that's not a lawsuit waiting to happen I have no idea.
I'm more comfortable working with a dress-shirt on than a tee-shirt. I'm sure I'm more comfortable with shirt than none. Please stop assuming that everyone else feels as you do.
So, it'll be like sharing machines at the gym... because that system never fails?
Huh, that's not a real response. The GP said that women tend to be better because the education system tends to be skewed against letting women skate through in technical fields. So the lower tier doesn't make it to the workplace, but change majors. This reflects what I know from people still in university schools.
Therefore, the average female coder is probably better than the average male coder. But that's a stupid and misleading statement anyway, because it implies that women make better programmers and inverses the correlation. (Two out of the last three female programmers I interviewed were horrible.)
I don't know why I'd ever want a less talented programmer on a team. I really want everyone else to be better than I am.
I'm not sure about the first one, but on the second case: yes. A church can refuse to hire a pastor that's an atheist or a different religion, because the religion is tied to job performance. A church cannot use a religious test to hire a janitor.
A stripper's nudity is not incidental to her job, like it would be for a programmer.
In very similar rules, you cannot hire only men unless there's a reason a woman really cannot do that job (e.g. being a male actor.) And you cannot force someone to have sex as a condition of employment, except as a porn star.
All owning something is is being able to keep people off. Owning land means nothing more then you are not tresspassing and other people are.
Because under some circumstances, it is criminal. Under others, it is only civil. See 17 USC 506 for more details.
IANAL, so you should read the code and consult a lawyer for a better answer.
Exclusivity is property. That's why tresspassing is forbidden, the owner has exclusive use of that land. It's not like I'm taking anything, and after I leave it looks exactly the same.
That is ridiculous. The problem is that copyright is civil. If it were criminal, they would have non-fine options, like community service.
Patents exist to encourage publication... otherwise, the oft-overlooked 4th branch of intellectual property - trade secrets - can come into play. Non-transferable, there are mechanisms in the law for their preservation. However, there are no protections from independent discovery. Of course, some trade secrets can retain their value long after a patent has expired.
It is incredible. Not because they refused to give attribution to a blog; it's a human interest piece where attribution isn't really necessary. Instead, it's incredible because it is truly horrible writing. I don't normally correct grammar online. If people communicate information effectively, I can overlook grammar. But newspapers should be held to a higher standard, donchathink?
Not if you want to use public keys to confirm identity.
See that, even the malware on OS X is better written!
Wait, you didn't have a TPS code for filling out TPS sheets?
Considering TOR was an invention of the US Navy, you'd assume that the military, at least, considers it a boon.
On the item in total, maybe (50% is around average for retail markups... but Best Buy's markup on big ticket items is far less than that, while sodas and candy have a bigger percentage increase to offset that.) On the return/resell transaction, no. That will lead to companies trying to prevent returns, through either making it more difficult, charging a 50% restocking fee, etc.
Also, if you think about what would happen in the big case, it would encourage people to buy/return/rebuy (or have a friend rebuy). Which would lead to all goods being 50% off.
Online sure. Check out a retail store sometime. Most have a 90 day return policy if you still have all the packaging, etc.
I would gladly raise my own tax rates by 5% if it applied to everyone making as much as I am or more
My tax rates are too low. I'll gladly vote to change it. I'm not going to change it unilaterally. Or, to be more annoyingly condescending, Here you go.