Puzzle games won't help you with your mental agility? I would think they would at least a bit. Maybe they wouldn't do as much for reaction times as a racing game, but neither does a reading book, which has been proven to keep an aging mind sharp.
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How is that any scarier that any other browsers history?
So re-writing a little utility that someone is over-charging for ($29 for a one-time use tool that I don't really need?!), then giving it away for free is evil? Since when?
Stealing the look and feel, and functionality of the product is evil? So the gimp is evil too then, cause that arguably provides the same look, feel and functionality as photoshop...?
What about half the other FOSS that was made as an alternative to over-priced commercial software?
And do you honestly think that this company could have made a billion dollars in profits from this utility? I don't.
I DO think it was a bit sketchy that google worked along side them, or made them a "partner" and then reneged, but I don't think that warrants the amount of negative spin that this is getting.
Or even better a B100/SVO mix. Sure you'd have to mod the car to add the SVO kit, but you could start it on B100 and then swith it to Straight Veggie Oil!
If you take each cell individually, there are 4 states it can be in. (2 bits worth of states). But when you look at that in the whole array you have a base4 number.
I can see using this to jam more storage onto the device, then making a simple ciruit to convert the base4 to base2, but I don't ever see this being usable outside of storage; Unless there are some sort of quarternary logic gates that I dont know about.
I don't think it would make it any more legally binding, except maybe because of the argument that the license is too hard to read in its "legaleese" format.
But making it easy to read doesn't mean people won't still just look for the 'next' button. I don't have any references for this, so don't bite my head off: A while ago I remember hearing about a legal case in Australia where an employee sued a company for wrongful termination. The employee was fired for inappropriate use of their computers, and the companies policies and agreements clearly stated that they could terminate if someone violated them. The employee signed them, but claimed that it was a "habitual action" of sort to just sign those kinds of forms. I believe he won.
I like the idea of a summary of the license, but I'm not sure it will actually make people read it.
I find myself saying "RTF[Insert Acronym Letter Here]" every day. People sign acceptable use agreements, employment contracts, EULA's, policies, and a lot of other things without reading them. When they violate them they scream foul or "I didn't know I couldn't do that".
People have always done this, but recently it seems that they are getting away with it. Expressed penalties or consequences are softened or overturned with an "Oh, no one actually READS that stuff".
I'm not saying I read every single thing word for word that I agree to or put my name on, but I know I will need to live with the consequences if I violate the agreement. Something of this scope, though, I would imagine you would read and understand the entire license that you are releasing your code under. I can understand accepting the EULA as a user without reading it, but not as a publisher.
Ignorance of the rules isn't a get-out-of-jail-free card.
Section 13(a)(17) of the FLSA provides that certain computer professionals paid at least $27.63 per hour are exempt from the overtime provisions of the FLSA.
80K a year works out to somewhere around 40 bucks an hour.
They said they were wrongly classified as exempt, but TFA mentions IT positions. This explains a portion of who is exempt and who isn't. It looks to me like most IT jobs fit into exempt.
I guess I should be thankful I'm on salary, but still get hourly OT pay if I claim it. *grin*
Unions exist only to protect the institution of unions, not the employees. Fuck em.
Cheers.
When I was hired, I was offered the option to join the union. I said "No, Thanks", but soon changed my mind. The "representation fee" for not joining the union is higher than the union dues.
My point of view is that my union mainly keeps the lazy and unqualified employed.
I'm in upstate NY and TWC already does this with thier RoadRunner. Standard resigential service is at the low tier with around 8mbps/1mpbs, then Business Class at around 12mps/4mbps, but the modems will do around 15mpbs down and 15 mbps up, uncapped. ** All this came from the technician that last visited us at work.
The uncapped ones aren't really a tier, since they're pretty much only used internally, but the residential/business tiered model is already in use. And anyone can subscribe to the business, for an increased rate. I think the business might actually have QoS preference over residential, too, but I'm not sure of that.
I think everyone agrees that this sort of thing is "bad". I wouldn't call it violence, but criminal nonetheless.
But I also think slashdotters are amused at the continued running-amok of MS products. When the school bully gets beat up, you tend to not feel as sorry for him as you do for your friend.
Besides, cleaning up the spyware keeps the fly-by-night pc repair geeks in business
We lease point to point fiber from a company (and I watched them hang it on the poles, it wasn't existing dark) for slightly over $18K a YEAR. The company is called FiberTECH out of Syracuse, NY. Now we did sign a 4 year contract, so figure about 72K over 4 years. Now included in our price is the equipment to light it, and gigabit ethernet interfaces on each end. It's just under 1 mile as the crow flies, but they followed the road, so its probably about a mile. If the costs are as high to hang this stuff as others indicate here, then it should have cost them somewhere between 30 and 50 thousand just to hang it. So by the costs that people have posted here I can't imagine that the company would not see any profit from it until after 3 years of service. Keep in mind that this is in a rural environment as well, so renting poll space isn't quite as much as it may be in a big city, but it's harder to install.
Also, since I work for a school, we get 70% of the above cost BACK for New York E-Rate. So its even cheaper.:-)
Now I don't like MS as much as the next guy, but I have to ask myself if they put the same haphazard programming practices that go into their OS and PC apps into their embedded OS. Can they honestly push releases out unpatched and broken, and still maintain a market? As they don't seem to have that market as cornered, and customers require stability and usability over the newest-coolest-gotta-get-it features, wouldn't an unstable embedded OS simply NOT sell? Hmmm...
A few years back, I attended a weekend long LAN party that was hosted by a group called RRGC (Road Runner Gaming Coalition, or something like that). It was like 10 buck for the weekend, wich covered the cost of renting the hotel room (conference room actually. The one thing that I notice people stressing is power, and I agree. This particular group double checked power consumption, and the hotel guarenteed that the power would be adequate, but when people started showing up with dual headed systems with two subwoofers and neons, along with mini fridges, it got out of hand. We blew about 12 circuit breakers in a day, and the second day decided to play in "shifts". Kinda slowed things down and killed the romance, if ya know what I mean. Power is probably the number one thing, with food, drink, and setup close behind.
Try to discourage people from pirating the games on your watch, but you won't stop it. Tell them ahead of time what games you'll be playing. Also, ask eveyone to bring a pair of headphones. The last thing you need is 100 different sets of 5 piece Monsoon systems pumping out 100 different MP3's mixed with game noise. (The 15 year olds listening to Britney Spears and NSync won't mix well with the 40 year olds listening to BTO and Steelers Wheel)
If you have it in a hotel, tell them that there will be 100 geeks in a room, competing at senseless computer games. People will get in arguments, I would bet my gonads on it. If you let the hotel know, they can have security ready incase anyone need to be persuaded to calm down, or dragged out by their feet. It would be nice to think that even if a few people got into it, the others would control them, but that doesn't always happen.
I would recomend food and drink be provided by individuals, yet a group chip-in on a bunch of pizza's could be a cheap way for everyone to eat as well. Encourage non-gamer spouses/sig. others to cater! Other than that, just make sure you keep it chill and not too competitive. Make sure the nerds know it's just a game.
I used to be the asst. manager at my campus computer store, and dealt both with MS and our "MS approved vendor" of MS Academic Alliance CD's. Couple of side points about them:
a) They are a pain in the ass. We went through four vendors and every one of them took over a month to fill an order. Come to find out, it was MS's delay in approving the sale.
b) The licenses are deliberately shady (IMHO). We (the university) purchased a bundled license for Operating Systems, Office suites, and VS. They all included Professional versions, so that was fine. The Shady part, was that MS and their vendor allowed a purchase of 500+ copies of NT Advanced Server (which is not included in the OS liscence pack apparently). 2 years after the purchase, we get audited by MS and whose fault was it? Ours of course, but they fined the university a shit ton of money, with no grace period to purchace the licenses we needed first.
c) They change all the time. Our campus licence stated that it was okay to burn copies for Faculty use ON CAMPUS ONLY. This past year, I specifically called my MS rep (who was most likely a third party vedor rep) to ask them specifically if I can burn copies of Non-Keyed CD's for use on campus. Thats Fine (got it in writing faxed to me). Now a month later (during the audit above) they find burnt copies laying around in offices, and shit their pants. They issued a new license to us, an voided the old one. and that's no longer allowed. Faculty used to be able to buy a CD and take it home, legally. That changed at the same time. If they wanted to take it home, they had to buy a student copy.
These may seem pretty petty, but they caused me ALOT of headaches while I was working there. They caught us in a trap, whether it was deliberate or not, and we still had to pay. It can happen.
BT is a god... 808 state is older than god... and DJ Icey is just cool. (forget the fact BT produced that boy band) BT makes some of fullest, most well rounded music out there and he is insane in concert. He is actually a very talented musician as well... not just a sampler-jockey.
on the contrary, my friend. UD SysAdmins, whom which I know many personally, DO know what they are doing. UD is a private school, offering a service to students ( Net access ). It is _NOT_ a right to have Net access from the college. If students do not like the way UD handles their net access, use another ISP. I know ERInet offers some very nice 56K dialup accounts.:-) What I'm saying is, they can do whatever they want, and if you really don't like it, transfer or find another ISP. it's not a quistion of why they did it. it doesn't matter why they did it. if UD decided to ban Yahoo right now, for no reason. What can legaly stop them. nothing.
I was listening to a local college station the other night, and recived a five minute explination why we still have one year left in this century, decade, and millenium. The monotone man on the radio essentially said "There is no year zero." When the Gregorian calendar was invented, there was no mathematical concept of zero, therefore it would be foolish to think that there is a year zero. The sequence went 3BC, 2BC, 1BC, 1AD, 2AD... notice the lack of a zero. Therefore, the first day of the first decade/millenium/century was 01/01/0001. Now, a millenium is defined as 1000 years, making 01/01/1001 the first day in the second millenium, also making Jan 1, 2001 the first day of the third millenium (NOT Jan 1 2000). So as far as I am concerned, we all have another full year in the 20'th century. When the real millenuim comes, I'll be the first to celebrate.
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Don't hate. OMGPonies!!! was hilarious.
I think it is a funny, silly addition. Ole'
Which is why it's so great!
Puzzle games won't help you with your mental agility? I would think they would at least a bit. Maybe they wouldn't do as much for reaction times as a racing game, but neither does a reading book, which has been proven to keep an aging mind sharp.
How is that any scarier that any other browsers history?
I'm glad I'm not the only one who had to read that a few times.
Here I thought I just misunderstood it.
So re-writing a little utility that someone is over-charging for ($29 for a one-time use tool that I don't really need?!), then giving it away for free is evil? Since when?
Stealing the look and feel, and functionality of the product is evil? So the gimp is evil too then, cause that arguably provides the same look, feel and functionality as photoshop...?
What about half the other FOSS that was made as an alternative to over-priced commercial software?
And do you honestly think that this company could have made a billion dollars in profits from this utility? I don't.
I DO think it was a bit sketchy that google worked along side them, or made them a "partner" and then reneged, but I don't think that warrants the amount of negative spin that this is getting.
He's great with his sister...HA!
Or even better a B100/SVO mix. Sure you'd have to mod the car to add the SVO kit, but you could start it on B100 and then swith it to Straight Veggie Oil!
If you take each cell individually, there are 4 states it can be in. (2 bits worth of states). But when you look at that in the whole array you have a base4 number.
I can see using this to jam more storage onto the device, then making a simple ciruit to convert the base4 to base2, but I don't ever see this being usable outside of storage; Unless there are some sort of quarternary logic gates that I dont know about.
I don't think it would make it any more legally binding, except maybe because of the argument that the license is too hard to read in its "legaleese" format.
But making it easy to read doesn't mean people won't still just look for the 'next' button.
I don't have any references for this, so don't bite my head off: A while ago I remember hearing about a legal case in Australia where an employee sued a company for wrongful termination. The employee was fired for inappropriate use of their computers, and the companies policies and agreements clearly stated that they could terminate if someone violated them. The employee signed them, but claimed that it was a "habitual action" of sort to just sign those kinds of forms. I believe he won.
I like the idea of a summary of the license, but I'm not sure it will actually make people read it.
I find myself saying "RTF[Insert Acronym Letter Here]" every day. People sign acceptable use agreements, employment contracts, EULA's, policies, and a lot of other things without reading them. When they violate them they scream foul or "I didn't know I couldn't do that".
People have always done this, but recently it seems that they are getting away with it. Expressed penalties or consequences are softened or overturned with an "Oh, no one actually READS that stuff".
I'm not saying I read every single thing word for word that I agree to or put my name on, but I know I will need to live with the consequences if I violate the agreement. Something of this scope, though, I would imagine you would read and understand the entire license that you are releasing your code under. I can understand accepting the EULA as a user without reading it, but not as a publisher.
Ignorance of the rules isn't a get-out-of-jail-free card.
Section 13(a)(17) of the FLSA provides that certain computer professionals paid at least $27.63 per hour are exempt from the overtime provisions of the FLSA.
80K a year works out to somewhere around 40 bucks an hour.
They said they were wrongly classified as exempt, but TFA mentions IT positions. This explains a portion of who is exempt and who isn't. It looks to me like most IT jobs fit into exempt.
I guess I should be thankful I'm on salary, but still get hourly OT pay if I claim it. *grin*
Unions exist only to protect the institution of unions, not the employees. Fuck em.
Cheers.
When I was hired, I was offered the option to join the union. I said "No, Thanks", but soon changed my mind. The "representation fee" for not joining the union is higher than the union dues.
My point of view is that my union mainly keeps the lazy and unqualified employed.
I'm in upstate NY and TWC already does this with thier RoadRunner. Standard resigential service is at the low tier with around 8mbps/1mpbs, then Business Class at around 12mps/4mbps, but the modems will do around 15mpbs down and 15 mbps up, uncapped. ** All this came from the technician that last visited us at work.
The uncapped ones aren't really a tier, since they're pretty much only used internally, but the residential/business tiered model is already in use. And anyone can subscribe to the business, for an increased rate. I think the business might actually have QoS preference over residential, too, but I'm not sure of that.
I think everyone agrees that this sort of thing is "bad". I wouldn't call it violence, but criminal nonetheless.
But I also think slashdotters are amused at the continued running-amok of MS products. When the school bully gets beat up, you tend to not feel as sorry for him as you do for your friend.
Besides, cleaning up the spyware keeps the fly-by-night pc repair geeks in business
We lease point to point fiber from a company (and I watched them hang it on the poles, it wasn't existing dark) for slightly over $18K a YEAR. The company is called FiberTECH out of Syracuse, NY. Now we did sign a 4 year contract, so figure about 72K over 4 years. Now included in our price is the equipment to light it, and gigabit ethernet interfaces on each end. It's just under 1 mile as the crow flies, but they followed the road, so its probably about a mile. If the costs are as high to hang this stuff as others indicate here, then it should have cost them somewhere between 30 and 50 thousand just to hang it. So by the costs that people have posted here I can't imagine that the company would not see any profit from it until after 3 years of service. Keep in mind that this is in a rural environment as well, so renting poll space isn't quite as much as it may be in a big city, but it's harder to install.
:-)
Also, since I work for a school, we get 70% of the above cost BACK for New York E-Rate. So its even cheaper.
Um. Dunno how it happened, but this should have gone under a different article (If MS built cars...) Sorry.
Now I don't like MS as much as the next guy, but I have to ask myself if they put the same haphazard programming practices that go into their OS and PC apps into their embedded OS. Can they honestly push releases out unpatched and broken, and still maintain a market? As they don't seem to have that market as cornered, and customers require stability and usability over the newest-coolest-gotta-get-it features, wouldn't an unstable embedded OS simply NOT sell? Hmmm...
Offtopic waring:
I actually laughed out loud when I read that. HA!
A few years back, I attended a weekend long LAN party that was hosted by a group called RRGC (Road Runner Gaming Coalition, or something like that). It was like 10 buck for the weekend, wich covered the cost of renting the hotel room (conference room actually. The one thing that I notice people stressing is power, and I agree. This particular group double checked power consumption, and the hotel guarenteed that the power would be adequate, but when people started showing up with dual headed systems with two subwoofers and neons, along with mini fridges, it got out of hand. We blew about 12 circuit breakers in a day, and the second day decided to play in "shifts". Kinda slowed things down and killed the romance, if ya know what I mean. Power is probably the number one thing, with food, drink, and setup close behind.
Try to discourage people from pirating the games on your watch, but you won't stop it. Tell them ahead of time what games you'll be playing. Also, ask eveyone to bring a pair of headphones. The last thing you need is 100 different sets of 5 piece Monsoon systems pumping out 100 different MP3's mixed with game noise. (The 15 year olds listening to Britney Spears and NSync won't mix well with the 40 year olds listening to BTO and Steelers Wheel)
If you have it in a hotel, tell them that there will be 100 geeks in a room, competing at senseless computer games. People will get in arguments, I would bet my gonads on it. If you let the hotel know, they can have security ready incase anyone need to be persuaded to calm down, or dragged out by their feet. It would be nice to think that even if a few people got into it, the others would control them, but that doesn't always happen.
I would recomend food and drink be provided by individuals, yet a group chip-in on a bunch of pizza's could be a cheap way for everyone to eat as well. Encourage non-gamer spouses/sig. others to cater!
Other than that, just make sure you keep it chill and not too competitive. Make sure the nerds know it's just a game.
I used to be the asst. manager at my campus computer store, and dealt both with MS and our "MS approved vendor" of MS Academic Alliance CD's. Couple of side points about them:
a) They are a pain in the ass. We went through four vendors and every one of them took over a month to fill an order. Come to find out, it was MS's delay in approving the sale.
b) The licenses are deliberately shady (IMHO). We (the university) purchased a bundled license for Operating Systems, Office suites, and VS. They all included Professional versions, so that was fine. The Shady part, was that MS and their vendor allowed a purchase of 500+ copies of NT Advanced Server (which is not included in the OS liscence pack apparently). 2 years after the purchase, we get audited by MS and whose fault was it? Ours of course, but they fined the university a shit ton of money, with no grace period to purchace the licenses we needed first.
c) They change all the time. Our campus licence stated that it was okay to burn copies for Faculty use ON CAMPUS ONLY. This past year, I specifically called my MS rep (who was most likely a third party vedor rep) to ask them specifically if I can burn copies of Non-Keyed CD's for use on campus. Thats Fine (got it in writing faxed to me). Now a month later (during the audit above) they find burnt copies laying around in offices, and shit their pants. They issued a new license to us, an voided the old one. and that's no longer allowed. Faculty used to be able to buy a CD and take it home, legally. That changed at the same time. If they wanted to take it home, they had to buy a student copy.
These may seem pretty petty, but they caused me ALOT of headaches while I was working there. They caught us in a trap, whether it was deliberate or not, and we still had to pay. It can happen.
BT is a god... 808 state is older than god... and DJ Icey is just cool. (forget the fact BT produced that boy band) BT makes some of fullest, most well rounded music out there and he is insane in concert. He is actually a very talented musician as well... not just a sampler-jockey.
on the contrary, my friend. UD SysAdmins, whom which I know many personally, DO know what they are doing. UD is a private school, offering a service to students ( Net access ). It is _NOT_ a right to have Net access from the college. If students do not like the way UD handles their net access, use another ISP. I know ERInet offers some very nice 56K dialup accounts. :-) What I'm saying is, they can do whatever they want, and if you really don't like it, transfer or find another ISP. it's not a quistion of why they did it. it doesn't matter why they did it. if UD decided to ban Yahoo right now, for no reason. What can legaly stop them. nothing.
I was listening to a local college station the other night, and recived a five minute explination why we still have one year left in this century, decade, and millenium. The monotone man on the radio essentially said " There is no year zero. " When the Gregorian calendar was invented, there was no mathematical concept of zero, therefore it would be foolish to think that there is a year zero. The sequence went 3BC, 2BC, 1BC, 1AD, 2AD ... notice the lack of a zero. Therefore, the first day of the first decade/millenium/century was 01/01/0001. Now, a millenium is defined as 1000 years, making 01/01/1001 the first day in the second millenium, also making Jan 1, 2001 the first day of the third millenium (NOT Jan 1 2000). So as far as I am concerned, we all have another full year in the 20'th century. When the real millenuim comes, I'll be the first to celebrate.
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