I understand what you're saying, but I still can't summon up enough outrage to care. Even if you said "what if the whole game, music and movie industry came to a grinding halt?", I'd still be numb to the whole fracas. I'm sorry, I just don't have it in me, any more.
After all the crap Ubisoft and others have pulled with DRM, and after all the evil doings of RIAA and MPAA, I have a very hard time feeling negative connotations about piracy. I am almost not even conflicted, my moral compass is swinging in the direction of "pirates=good guys". This doesn't refer to high seas pirates which are, of course, murderers and thieves. But in this context, pirates are... good or bad? I don't feel anymore they're really the bad guys. I'm trying to feel that way, but Ubisoft et al. just killed it.
Then, there's the standard compromise, which I hope you will avoid. It is very common in these situations for your boss to offer you personally a fair stock deal, so long as you can sell a crap deal to your employees. The standard way this is done is for you to be asked to claim each share is worth X, when in reality it's worth less than X/10. The way to help your employees in this case is to somehow leak how much stock is outstanding. If your employees are too dumb to guess what the stock is actually worth once they have this information, they may not deserve extra compensation.
This little nugget makes me believe the whole advice is bad. Saying that, if someone doesn't recognize that they're being taken advantage of DESERVES to be taken advantage of, is douchebaggery of the worst kind.
My advice is to the OP is: leave the company. No "ifs" or "buts", there is no circumstance in which this will have a happy end, except MAYBE for the owners.
You are forgetting things like modern computer technology actually does take advantage of some advanced physics like quantum tunneling.
Quantum tunneling was researched and studied in the 1950s and earlier. I have on my lap, as I write this, William Shockley's "Electrons and Holes in Semiconductors", first published in November 1950. This is still one of the best books on stuff such as quantum states, mechanics and tunneling. Here's a link to the history of research on quantum tunneling. Please do note the years of the milestones.
Last time I was in Thailand, I made a point of trying various fried insects, which is very common staple in South Thailand (not so much around Bangkok). I was surprised at how good they tasted. However, not at all comparable with meat. It's completely different but not worse, IMHO.
I don't like to be silenced by sock-puppets, so I'll reiterate: what does that have to do at all with arguing the message, rather than assassinating the messenger? This rhetorical device is so old, I would have hoped that Slashdot readers would be above it. Instead, they fall right into it.
If you think you can argue the point, do so. Attacking the person will get you "Karma" but it also makes you a karma-whore. It won't win the argument.
Exactly what I thought. Most people are religious, and they have very narrow views on what personhood means. After all, it was only very recently that other human beings were considered animals/lesser beings (slavery and racism).
Besides, what does that have to do at all with arguing the message, rather than assassinating the messenger? This rhetorical device is so old, I would have hoped that Slashdot readers would be above it. Instead, they fall right into it.
I doubt that you have studied dolphin behavior nor could you be a marine biologist or even properly studied, researching biologist.
I am not a marine biologist, true. But people are not uni-dimensional creatures. Not all of them, anyway. I like to look into various different facets of life and nature, besides my main research.
My opinion is yes. I have studied dolphin behavior for some time, and there hhave been cases where one can distinctly recognize personhood.
The problem is: most of humankind is religious, and some of it quite fanatic. These guys will never accept that there is any other living being, except for humans, that has all the characters of a person.
If we all switched to ATM (Asynchronous transfer mode), would this issue be fixed, regardless of the size of RAM available at the endpoints? Yes, yes I realize that this would be utterly impractical; my question is theoretical.
You can also have good science rejected by getting three incompetent reviewers. Happened to me several times, the worst one when the program committee attached a note that showed they had not read or understood their own call for papers. I suspect a direct lie to keep me out. Published it later unchanged somewhere else and those people were surprised it got rejected earlier.
In addition to incompetent reviewers, there are also those that are envious or want to steal your ideas. Peer-review is fundamentally broken. One friend who has a PhD in a different CS area thinks 70% of researchers are corrupt, reviewing things positively when they know the authors, no matter the quality and negatively otherwise. Lying in application to research grants is also quite common. The final result is that good researchers have trouble working and often leave research altogether, which may be an explanation for how glacially slow some fields move.
I am a researcher in micro and nanotech, and I can confirm this trend in my field, as well. In fact, one journal in particular has been especially bad in rejecting my articles with some awful refereeing, which I will save for posterity. I am tempted to rub my published articles under the nose of the (probably equally incompetent or corrupt) editor of that journal.
Parents want to worry, it's in their instincts to protect their children - if they can find no real dangers, they'll inflate anything that looks remotely threatening regardless of true risk.
Parents, by and large, are normal people like me and (hopefully) you. Becoming a parent does not automatically render one incapable of common sense and make them hysterical freaks. Some do, sure, but they are rare. I find that this demographic is usually the same which believes in alternative medicine such as ayur-veda, homeopathy, biofield and other such bullshit. THAT should be the target of your complaint, and not the generic parent, which is, in the large majority, just a normal human being.
It's always strange for me to listen to Pink Floyd songs out of context from the rest of the album. It probably stems from listening to those albums start to finish in my youth, and many of the songs blending in to one an other. For example, at the end of Dark Side of the Moon, "Brain Damage" flows directly in to "Eclipse," and separating those two tracks should be illegal.
I agree. Dark Side of the Moon, Wish you Were Here and The Wall are conceived as a single musical work. In fact, for me even Meddle has a consistency and flow. OTOH, Atom Heart Mother and the other (previous) Pink Floyd albums are/were compilations. Meddle is somewhat in-between the overarching thematic and musical unity of the Dark Side of the Moon-like albums, and the previous compilations, but to me, it has plenty of self-consistency and flow, to want to always listen to it as one.
America imports twice as much oil from Canada as Saudi Arabia, and the Chinese will be more than happy to buy any Saudi oil that Americans don't.
Oil is a commodity, and it doesn't matter where you buy it from, the price is affected only by the quantity you buy. If the US would stop buying the Canadian oil, there would be some oversupply in the market, and the price would go down. Yes, the Chinese would be very grateful, but the Saudis would not.
Please, do screw this into your heads once and for all: it does NOT matter one iota where a country buys it's oil from. For all intents and purposes, it's one and the same pool.
I don't think I want to argue too strongly my side; I can see that this is mostly a matter of opinion. In mine, MS would have a vested interest in supporting Win XP with a decent browser, since the OS is very popular and if MS won't, the alternatives listed before, will. But as I said, I'm not going to get all holy-war on you on an issue like this. I can see us getting a beer and discuss this in a civilized way:D
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I understand what you're saying, but I still can't summon up enough outrage to care. Even if you said "what if the whole game, music and movie industry came to a grinding halt?", I'd still be numb to the whole fracas. I'm sorry, I just don't have it in me, any more.
After all the crap Ubisoft and others have pulled with DRM, and after all the evil doings of RIAA and MPAA, I have a very hard time feeling negative connotations about piracy. I am almost not even conflicted, my moral compass is swinging in the direction of "pirates=good guys". This doesn't refer to high seas pirates which are, of course, murderers and thieves. But in this context, pirates are... good or bad? I don't feel anymore they're really the bad guys. I'm trying to feel that way, but Ubisoft et al. just killed it.
Then, there's the standard compromise, which I hope you will avoid. It is very common in these situations for your boss to offer you personally a fair stock deal, so long as you can sell a crap deal to your employees. The standard way this is done is for you to be asked to claim each share is worth X, when in reality it's worth less than X/10. The way to help your employees in this case is to somehow leak how much stock is outstanding. If your employees are too dumb to guess what the stock is actually worth once they have this information, they may not deserve extra compensation.
This little nugget makes me believe the whole advice is bad. Saying that, if someone doesn't recognize that they're being taken advantage of DESERVES to be taken advantage of, is douchebaggery of the worst kind.
My advice is to the OP is: leave the company. No "ifs" or "buts", there is no circumstance in which this will have a happy end, except MAYBE for the owners.
You are forgetting things like modern computer technology actually does take advantage of some advanced physics like quantum tunneling.
Quantum tunneling was researched and studied in the 1950s and earlier. I have on my lap, as I write this, William Shockley's "Electrons and Holes in Semiconductors", first published in November 1950. This is still one of the best books on stuff such as quantum states, mechanics and tunneling. Here's a link to the history of research on quantum tunneling. Please do note the years of the milestones.
If you want to see how this plays out, just watch Gattaca. This movie is scarily prophetic.
Points taken, except that you don't need to smoke marijuana in order to consume cannabis. Brownies work just great.
Last time I was in Thailand, I made a point of trying various fried insects, which is very common staple in South Thailand (not so much around Bangkok). I was surprised at how good they tasted. However, not at all comparable with meat. It's completely different but not worse, IMHO.
Not all drugs are created equal. I would place marijuana somewhere between Tobacco and Alcohol -- Both of which are already legal.
You are right, not all drugs are created equal: in fact, cannabis is much less dangerous than either alcohol or tobacco.
Alcohol 'more harmful than heroin' says Prof David Nutt
In my version, a guy crosses the border on a bicycle, carrying a brick on the rear rack. The item being smuggled is the bicycle, of course.
So I guess, it's just an invented story, in either case.
I don't like to be silenced by sock-puppets, so I'll reiterate: what does that have to do at all with arguing the message, rather than assassinating the messenger? This rhetorical device is so old, I would have hoped that Slashdot readers would be above it. Instead, they fall right into it.
If you think you can argue the point, do so. Attacking the person will get you "Karma" but it also makes you a karma-whore. It won't win the argument.
Exactly what I thought. Most people are religious, and they have very narrow views on what personhood means. After all, it was only very recently that other human beings were considered animals/lesser beings (slavery and racism).
It's actually quite difficult to snipe from a moving ship.
That's why the ideal weapon for this scenario is a flamethrower or an automatic shotgun like the Daewoo USAS 12.
Besides, what does that have to do at all with arguing the message, rather than assassinating the messenger? This rhetorical device is so old, I would have hoped that Slashdot readers would be above it. Instead, they fall right into it.
I doubt that you have studied dolphin behavior nor could you be a marine biologist or even properly studied, researching biologist.
I am not a marine biologist, true. But people are not uni-dimensional creatures. Not all of them, anyway. I like to look into various different facets of life and nature, besides my main research.
My opinion is yes. I have studied dolphin behavior for some time, and there hhave been cases where one can distinctly recognize personhood.
The problem is: most of humankind is religious, and some of it quite fanatic. These guys will never accept that there is any other living being, except for humans, that has all the characters of a person.
Wasn't kidding. Don't kill me, bro!
If we all switched to ATM (Asynchronous transfer mode), would this issue be fixed, regardless of the size of RAM available at the endpoints? Yes, yes I realize that this would be utterly impractical; my question is theoretical.
Draw a weiner and you have my $5.
I have a PhD in CS.
You can also have good science rejected by getting three incompetent reviewers. Happened to me several times, the worst one when the program committee attached a note that showed they had not read or understood their own call for papers. I suspect a direct lie to keep me out. Published it later unchanged somewhere else and those people were surprised it got rejected earlier.
In addition to incompetent reviewers, there are also those that are envious or want to steal your ideas. Peer-review is fundamentally broken. One friend who has a PhD in a different CS area thinks 70% of researchers are corrupt, reviewing things positively when they know the authors, no matter the quality and negatively otherwise. Lying in application to research grants is also quite common. The final result is that good researchers have trouble working and often leave research altogether, which may be an explanation for how glacially slow some fields move.
I am a researcher in micro and nanotech, and I can confirm this trend in my field, as well. In fact, one journal in particular has been especially bad in rejecting my articles with some awful refereeing, which I will save for posterity. I am tempted to rub my published articles under the nose of the (probably equally incompetent or corrupt) editor of that journal.
Parents want to worry, it's in their instincts to protect their children - if they can find no real dangers, they'll inflate anything that looks remotely threatening regardless of true risk.
Parents, by and large, are normal people like me and (hopefully) you. Becoming a parent does not automatically render one incapable of common sense and make them hysterical freaks. Some do, sure, but they are rare. I find that this demographic is usually the same which believes in alternative medicine such as ayur-veda, homeopathy, biofield and other such bullshit. THAT should be the target of your complaint, and not the generic parent, which is, in the large majority, just a normal human being.
Same goes for Windows 2000. I have (had) a Beta of Windows 2000 for Alpha.
Also, there was a version of Windows NT (up to 4.0) that ran on PowerPC!
Dark City
One of the best movies of all times.
It's always strange for me to listen to Pink Floyd songs out of context from the rest of the album. It probably stems from listening to those albums start to finish in my youth, and many of the songs blending in to one an other. For example, at the end of Dark Side of the Moon, "Brain Damage" flows directly in to "Eclipse," and separating those two tracks should be illegal.
I agree. Dark Side of the Moon, Wish you Were Here and The Wall are conceived as a single musical work. In fact, for me even Meddle has a consistency and flow. OTOH, Atom Heart Mother and the other (previous) Pink Floyd albums are/were compilations. Meddle is somewhat in-between the overarching thematic and musical unity of the Dark Side of the Moon-like albums, and the previous compilations, but to me, it has plenty of self-consistency and flow, to want to always listen to it as one.
America imports twice as much oil from Canada as Saudi Arabia, and the Chinese will be more than happy to buy any Saudi oil that Americans don't.
Oil is a commodity, and it doesn't matter where you buy it from, the price is affected only by the quantity you buy. If the US would stop buying the Canadian oil, there would be some oversupply in the market, and the price would go down. Yes, the Chinese would be very grateful, but the Saudis would not.
Please, do screw this into your heads once and for all: it does NOT matter one iota where a country buys it's oil from. For all intents and purposes, it's one and the same pool.
I don't think I want to argue too strongly my side; I can see that this is mostly a matter of opinion. In mine, MS would have a vested interest in supporting Win XP with a decent browser, since the OS is very popular and if MS won't, the alternatives listed before, will. But as I said, I'm not going to get all holy-war on you on an issue like this. I can see us getting a beer and discuss this in a civilized way :D