If you want your browser to be a platform to run computer applications (java, javascript, flash, etc), then yes it makes sense for the browser to be an operating system. If you want a browser to be a Web browser (document viewer) then people should be happy with Lynx, or Firefox with all the scripting and pre-installed plug-ins turned off.
I know, it always happens. I say something honest and insightful, then somebody who has an agenda will mark my comment a Troll, and then I will make a comment about the biased and unfair moderation, which will in turn be down moderated. It's a treadmill. When will Moderators stop acting like corporations and start acting mature.
Companies like Dell will go out of there way to market themselves into irrelevance. These companies don't like being at the top, so they will do everything possible to bring themselves down. I don't know why. I suppose they are short selling their own shares.
It would be interesting to know how easy it would be to generate false positives like car alarms do. The results could be quite humorous for the observer.
Perhaps not sufficiently noticeable, but a Moderator did remark via a down-mod. Kids today! Reminds me of the time I went down to a demonstration and got my fair share of abuse.
Because it's hard to find a computer that doesn't come with Windows at Walmart/BestBuy/etc.
You'd think that people who shopped for a computer at a Walmart wouldn't have the money or the sophistication to research "multiple violations of Washington state's unfair business practices", find a lawyer and start a class action law suit. Or if they were that sophisticated then why wouldn't they spend their mental powers and time and effort building their own custom computer without the help of the Geek Squad.
I often hear people bitching about Microsoft's operating systems and the problems with doing business with Microsoft and its Partners. Why don't people just get a computer with a non-Microsoft operating system. Linux, Apple, Plan 9, BSD; there are plenty to choose from.
So I take it you haven't read many employment contracts for private sector professional jobs in the last few decades? The implications from some of the standard clauses in those contracts are only mildly exaggerated by the GP.
Yes I have. I've even signed one like this when I was younger and more naive. It's ironic that capitalist corporations would stoop to the tactics of communism when it suites their agenda.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this will lead to workers submitting huge numbers of relatively worthless suggestions.
Of course I thought of this. If an employee is costing you more than he is worth then it will be a greater incentive to get rid of those people who derive their value from gaming the system. You pay a little more in the beginning but you save time, money and effort in the end. Even if the employee never gives good suggestions, but is prolific, I would argue it is worth the extra money (it doesn't need to be an extravagant amount of money, but something more than just a token dollar bill/coin).
But this shouldn't even be a concern, because the company hires Human Resource Professionals to weed out the weak and the lame during the hiring processes. It is a failure of management if they get useless suggestions. To the contrary, I would rather pay a good employee for his time and effort (even if not all of his suggestions are good). This would keep up morale, and keep a steady flow of suggestions coming in. Only an idiot would submit stupid suggestions for money, and Human Resources would presumably know this.
Apple seems to be innovative but I couldn't find anything on what they do in a quick Google search. Anyone have a scope on what Apple does?
From what I know of Apple (it's history at least), is that they steal ideas from people, companies, etc and they underpay their employees (compared to industry standards). They appear to obtain their success through the use of a Reality Distortion Field. Steve Jobs was also compulsive in surveying people for their opinions, though when left alone (like with NeXT) his megalomania remained unfettered and he nearly lost everything.
I think the best thing a company can do is make the employee sign a contract that everything he thinks of belongs to the company. Doesn't matter if he thinks of it at work, or on the way to/from, or during Sunday School. And the inventor must never ever divulge or utilize his own idea in any context, except at work (if the employer decides to use it).
If that's not a sure-fire recipe for employees giving you their best ideas, then I don't know what is.
It's been tried already. It's called communism and it failed with the Soviet Union.
One company I worked with had disincentives for NOT making suggestions. The negative reinforcements where points taken off the monthly evaluation. I never did submit any ideas (though I had many, I couldn't bring myself to submit). I was (I think) the most efficient worker in the company. I was also one of the first people to get laid-off when business started slowing down.
Of course, you'll still have the problem of new ideas being stifled in bureaucracy, or asshats predicting what the company would do anyway and trying to cash in.
Sounds like it. From the Anonymous Coward who posted the question to Slashdot:
The ideas and suggestions are evaluated by a board that decides whether they should be implemented or not. The group of workers with more ideas participates in a raffle to receive a prize.
I would suspect that any good ideas that Slashdotters come up with (like, so far, profit sharing, which seems to be the most popular) will likely go through a committee process where it is deemed uneconomic because it will divert funds from Management bonuses. That's the theory anyways. Theory always trumps reality in the workplace.
Didn't Homer Simpson suggest Kaizan to Burns? Didn't he also risk losing his job because of this rather bizarre Eastern philosophy? I believe this was when Simpson discovered a hair growth formula. I would suggest Rogaine over Kaizan to improve work place productivity.
1) Pay "workers" for each suggestion. 2) Ensure that each "worker" is made aware that the "worker" owns the ideas he submits to the company, and that the company will offer to license the ideas from the "worker" if Management deems the ideas "good enough" to implement 3) Ensure that the following are NOT offered as incentives: "raffles", "prizes" and (like one company I worked for offered, the "opportunity" to win the privilege of having breakfast with a Manager). This should be common sense for ANYBODY who has studied Management, the Social Sciences, Psychology, etc. But unfortunately the type of people who get into Human Resource Management don't usually have the brightest light bulbs.
I would think Microsoft would get suspicious of IP addresses coming from Cuba, or maybe I'm making the wrong assumptions on how the Genuine Advantage cracking is done.
At any rate I'd be interested in knowing if all these Linux operating systems that are coming out of politically dubious countries (Russia, China, and now Cuba) will be completely open source, or if there will be any proprietary back-doors, etc.
Since Microsoft isn't allowed to sell (and presumably license) its software to Cuba or Cuban companies, then it would appear that Cuba would have illegal copies of Microsoft Windows that would fail the Genuine Advantage checks.
Frankly, if I were a Vodafone exec in a country with a reputation "of torturing and murdering detainies, or having them 'disappear'" I'd probably cough up information pretty readily, too.
Not me. I would do everything in my power to undermine the country, much like the Western oil company's did in Venezuela when Hugo Chavez came to power. But too many people are like you; ready and willing to condone or take part in murder, torture and violence just like that bitch Annie Mullins from Vodophone, who
is heavily involved in various initiatives to prevent online child abuse, including the Internet Watch Foundation, added that the UK technology industry had "very positive" examples of self regulation.
(Ref: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/itmanagement/0,1000000308,39614610,00.htm). So she's actively involved in dubious organizations and thinks the UK police state is"very positive" and apparently expects people to take her seriously. The wrong people will inevitably, almost always get into positions of power. I only wish more of them were assassinated more often.
How or why would a cracker-hacker break into a company, re-write their software (i.e. Open Office) to put a vulnerability in it, and then sit around waiting for the software to fail, when instead they can just exploit defects in closed source software?
So the answer would be it is easier to crack closed source software because it is poorly maintained (i.e. time and budget constraints) and there is no peer review. The open-source nature doesn't make software easier to crack (unless the vulnerabilities in it are flagged with comments pointing them out), but it does make software easier and more likely to be fixed if there are vulnerabilities found.
Indeed, and so are the losers who are against using waste fat for fuel. America has both a fat problem and an energy problem that can be fixed through liposuction and the candle and fuel industry.
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...have to be this complicated?
If you want your browser to be a platform to run computer applications (java, javascript, flash, etc), then yes it makes sense for the browser to be an operating system. If you want a browser to be a Web browser (document viewer) then people should be happy with Lynx, or Firefox with all the scripting and pre-installed plug-ins turned off.
I know, it always happens. I say something honest and insightful, then somebody who has an agenda will mark my comment a Troll, and then I will make a comment about the biased and unfair moderation, which will in turn be down moderated. It's a treadmill. When will Moderators stop acting like corporations and start acting mature.
Companies like Dell will go out of there way to market themselves into irrelevance. These companies don't like being at the top, so they will do everything possible to bring themselves down. I don't know why. I suppose they are short selling their own shares.
I'll be impressed if they find the fossilized remains of Fred Flintstone.
It would be interesting to know how easy it would be to generate false positives like car alarms do. The results could be quite humorous for the observer.
Perhaps not sufficiently noticeable, but a Moderator did remark via a down-mod. Kids today! Reminds me of the time I went down to a demonstration and got my fair share of abuse.
The OS she wants is Windows XP. Why should she pay for two operating systems if she's only going to use one of them?
You can't always get what you want. But if you try some times, you just might find that you get what you need.
Because it's hard to find a computer that doesn't come with Windows at Walmart/BestBuy/etc.
You'd think that people who shopped for a computer at a Walmart wouldn't have the money or the sophistication to research "multiple violations of Washington state's unfair business practices", find a lawyer and start a class action law suit. Or if they were that sophisticated then why wouldn't they spend their mental powers and time and effort building their own custom computer without the help of the Geek Squad.
I often hear people bitching about Microsoft's operating systems and the problems with doing business with Microsoft and its Partners. Why don't people just get a computer with a non-Microsoft operating system. Linux, Apple, Plan 9, BSD; there are plenty to choose from.
So I take it you haven't read many employment contracts for private sector professional jobs in the last few decades? The implications from some of the standard clauses in those contracts are only mildly exaggerated by the GP.
Yes I have. I've even signed one like this when I was younger and more naive. It's ironic that capitalist corporations would stoop to the tactics of communism when it suites their agenda.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this will lead to workers submitting huge numbers of relatively worthless suggestions.
Of course I thought of this. If an employee is costing you more than he is worth then it will be a greater incentive to get rid of those people who derive their value from gaming the system. You pay a little more in the beginning but you save time, money and effort in the end. Even if the employee never gives good suggestions, but is prolific, I would argue it is worth the extra money (it doesn't need to be an extravagant amount of money, but something more than just a token dollar bill/coin).
But this shouldn't even be a concern, because the company hires Human Resource Professionals to weed out the weak and the lame during the hiring processes. It is a failure of management if they get useless suggestions. To the contrary, I would rather pay a good employee for his time and effort (even if not all of his suggestions are good). This would keep up morale, and keep a steady flow of suggestions coming in. Only an idiot would submit stupid suggestions for money, and Human Resources would presumably know this.
Apple seems to be innovative but I couldn't find anything on what they do in a quick Google search. Anyone have a scope on what Apple does?
From what I know of Apple (it's history at least), is that they steal ideas from people, companies, etc and they underpay their employees (compared to industry standards). They appear to obtain their success through the use of a Reality Distortion Field. Steve Jobs was also compulsive in surveying people for their opinions, though when left alone (like with NeXT) his megalomania remained unfettered and he nearly lost everything.
I think the best thing a company can do is make the employee sign a contract that everything he thinks of belongs to the company. Doesn't matter if he thinks of it at work, or on the way to/from, or during Sunday School. And the inventor must never ever divulge or utilize his own idea in any context, except at work (if the employer decides to use it).
If that's not a sure-fire recipe for employees giving you their best ideas, then I don't know what is.
It's been tried already. It's called communism and it failed with the Soviet Union.
One company I worked with had disincentives for NOT making suggestions. The negative reinforcements where points taken off the monthly evaluation. I never did submit any ideas (though I had many, I couldn't bring myself to submit). I was (I think) the most efficient worker in the company. I was also one of the first people to get laid-off when business started slowing down.
Of course, you'll still have the problem of new ideas being stifled in bureaucracy, or asshats predicting what the company would do anyway and trying to cash in.
Sounds like it. From the Anonymous Coward who posted the question to Slashdot:
The ideas and suggestions are evaluated by a board that decides whether they should be implemented or not. The group of workers with more ideas participates in a raffle to receive a prize.
I would suspect that any good ideas that Slashdotters come up with (like, so far, profit sharing, which seems to be the most popular) will likely go through a committee process where it is deemed uneconomic because it will divert funds from Management bonuses. That's the theory anyways. Theory always trumps reality in the workplace.
after 10 or 30 years of coding, actually be able to retire.
That's quite a liberal range. I wonder where you got those numbers from.
Didn't Homer Simpson suggest Kaizan to Burns? Didn't he also risk losing his job because of this rather bizarre Eastern philosophy? I believe this was when Simpson discovered a hair growth formula. I would suggest Rogaine over Kaizan to improve work place productivity.
How To Encourage Workers To Suggest Innovation?
1) Pay "workers" for each suggestion.
2) Ensure that each "worker" is made aware that the "worker" owns the ideas he submits to the company, and that the company will offer to license the ideas from the "worker" if Management deems the ideas "good enough" to implement
3) Ensure that the following are NOT offered as incentives: "raffles", "prizes" and (like one company I worked for offered, the "opportunity" to win the privilege of having breakfast with a Manager). This should be common sense for ANYBODY who has studied Management, the Social Sciences, Psychology, etc. But unfortunately the type of people who get into Human Resource Management don't usually have the brightest light bulbs.
...but many pirated copies can pass those checks
I would think Microsoft would get suspicious of IP addresses coming from Cuba, or maybe I'm making the wrong assumptions on how the Genuine Advantage cracking is done.
At any rate I'd be interested in knowing if all these Linux operating systems that are coming out of politically dubious countries (Russia, China, and now Cuba) will be completely open source, or if there will be any proprietary back-doors, etc.
Since Microsoft isn't allowed to sell (and presumably license) its software to Cuba or Cuban companies, then it would appear that Cuba would have illegal copies of Microsoft Windows that would fail the Genuine Advantage checks.
Frankly, if I were a Vodafone exec in a country with a reputation "of torturing and murdering detainies, or having them 'disappear'" I'd probably cough up information pretty readily, too.
Not me. I would do everything in my power to undermine the country, much like the Western oil company's did in Venezuela when Hugo Chavez came to power. But too many people are like you; ready and willing to condone or take part in murder, torture and violence just like that bitch Annie Mullins from Vodophone, who
is heavily involved in various initiatives to prevent online child abuse, including the Internet Watch Foundation, added that the UK technology industry had "very positive" examples of self regulation.
(Ref: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/itmanagement/0,1000000308,39614610,00.htm). So she's actively involved in dubious organizations and thinks the UK police state is"very positive" and apparently expects people to take her seriously. The wrong people will inevitably, almost always get into positions of power. I only wish more of them were assassinated more often.
Sun, IBM, and several others are MAJOR contributors. Why would they contribute to something that's so insecure?
They are collaborating with alien life forms that are trying to weaken the technological infrastructure of Earth.
Why would Google spend millions of dollars every year to fund Summer of Code?
They are giving young people a bit of feel-good educational employment just like Jim Jones gave his followers free Kool Aide.
Why would MySQL be one of the most popular RDMBS
Because people can't afford Microsoft SQL server.
How or why would a cracker-hacker break into a company, re-write their software (i.e. Open Office) to put a vulnerability in it, and then sit around waiting for the software to fail, when instead they can just exploit defects in closed source software?
So the answer would be it is easier to crack closed source software because it is poorly maintained (i.e. time and budget constraints) and there is no peer review. The open-source nature doesn't make software easier to crack (unless the vulnerabilities in it are flagged with comments pointing them out), but it does make software easier and more likely to be fixed if there are vulnerabilities found.
Intel is basically putting a $7 billion bet on a turnaround in the economy for 2010."
And if they lose the bet then they can just ask for a bailout like the financial firms and auto industry did. Because Intel is too big to fail.
Indeed, and so are the losers who are against using waste fat for fuel. America has both a fat problem and an energy problem that can be fixed through liposuction and the candle and fuel industry.