That is a silly analogy. In your case, we are talking about a VERY high cost for not following the safety procedures. In mine, we are talking about, at worst, a no-cost scenario, where a disabled user cannot access a document that would not have been available to him otherwise. He has lost nothing, but the vast majority of users have gained.
Let me offer you analogy. Someone offers you a lottery ticket for free. If you take it you either lose the lottery, in which case you are exactly where you started. If you win, you'll have a bunch of money. There is NO reason not to take the lottery ticket. The cost to you in either case is 0, but one (improbable) case has a very high pay out.
Now, suppose this same guy hands you a revolver w/ 1 bullet and says that if you survive, you'll get $1000000. However, if you lose you die. Even though there is a high chance you'll win, there is still a case where you may pay a VERY high cost. Suddenly you are in the position where you have to make a risk assessment. If you value your life, then the cost will probably be too high to take the chance.
Working as a web developer for the Canadian gov't, we had some similar rules for content. Mainly, you always had to provide it in the most accessible form possible. This usually meant HTML > PDF > Office Document. However, it was always on a best effort/convenience basis. So, if you posted PowerPoint slides, you also had to post the PDF versions, since making a PDF version was dead simple. However, we certainly weren't required to go all out and make a usable HTML version as well.
We also offered many things (eg. transcription or translation) on an "as requested" basis, since technically we were suppose to offer them, but realistically we didn't have the budget to do it for everything. This worked well.
I think just flat out banning PDFs is stupid. Require accessibility (best-effort), but allow for wiggle room. Yeah, it would be great if all PDFs had real text in them, but if the choice for some gov't agency is to either post an inaccessible version of the document or post nothing at all (because the time/cost required to make it accessible is too high), then they should be able to post the inaccessible version.
So far, in these comments, pretty much every pro-Diaspora commenter mentions how it's open source
I see a lot of people mentioning privacy concerns on Facebook, and the distributed aspects of Diaspora as the pros. There has actually been a nice lack of "OMG open source" comments so far.
$2000/m would be pretty hard to live on today. $2000/m 20 years from now is below minimum wage (inflation). A savings account with 2% will be hard to find. Especially one you can take $2000/m out of.
Unemployment isn't THAT high. Most jobs in North America right now are better than some shit job making the same fork all day, every day. In this day and age, you don't want your country's workforce to be skilled at making knick-knacks and cheap cutlery at 10x the cost of the rest of the world. You want an educated workforce that creates new ways of making cheap knick-knacks and cheap cutlery overseas. And, trust me, I lived in a blue-collar town for the last 8 years. Some people do some pretty menial stuff, but most manufacturing jobs here are a few steps above your average sweat shop.
One of my parent's cats figured out how to knock on the door. He rips the side moulding off a door, pulls it back, then lets go so it smacks the door. He continues this until you let him in. If that fail, he goes to every single window sill that he can reach until he finds you, then he meows and paws at the window until you notice and let him in. My cat is nowhere near as smart. He watched another cat for 2 hours, going in and out a hole in a screen door, until he finally realized he could do the same thing (up that point he just kept meowing at the door and trying to make a break for it every time it opened).
Fantastic comment. I tried playing Pokemon again, since I loved it so much as a kid. I played it for about 5 minutes, then all the memories of constant grinding to level up by wading through long-grass came back and I stopped playing. Just the thought of spending 2h doing nothing but fighting the same monsters over and over terrified me.
For me, it is more of a time vs. progress trade-off. I've had a hard time playing RPGs as of late because it seems I have to invest too much time just to reach the next "milestone."
I bought Fallout 3 for my PS3, but haven't felt motivated to play it unless I have at least a few hours of free time. On the other hand, I loved Killzone 2. It was fast-paced and an appropriate length - I played it over short bursts after work, before my wife came home. I think the only fairly long game I've actually completed in the past couple of years was Twilight Princess.
So what do you do when you an indie game that you want to play, only to find that it's a PC+Mac exclusive due to console makers adding organizational overhead that micro-ISVs have trouble covering?
Easy, I download and play them. The vast majority of "indie" games (that I've tried) run fine on my non-gaming, 4 year old laptop.
Well, the only cost to someone who has cheated for admitting to it is having to sit through 4h of a boring ethics class, whereas the penalty for not admitting it is possibly being expelled. At the very least, you'll be sitting through 4h of getting your ass reamed by academic affairs. The pay-off is nil in both cases, as your retaking the test regardless. You'd have to be stupid to not take that deal.
I used to think that way until PCI-e was introduced. Suddenly upgrading my graphics card meant upgrading my motherboard, CPU, and PSU as well. Pretty much leaving the disk drives as the only original equipment. That was when I got into console gaming. Every 6 odd years you can throw out your old system and buy a new one for a fraction of the cost of gaming PC. What's better, you know all the new games will run on your console for the next 6 years without having to "upgrade" anything.
What does organ donation have to do w/ the government removing random parts of your body for no reason? I'd love it if my organs helped save a life, but that doesn't mean my body is open for a free-for-all.
My car is an empty shell, it doesn't mean the government can come in and take my stereo. What gets me is the audacity of these people to think they have a right to someone else's body. My wife knows what I want for my body when I die, and even though I am not there, I still expect her and my family to respect my wishes. It is not up to the government to decide how my remains are handled. How you are buried and what you do with your organs after death can be a very personal and important issue to some people. Please treat it as such.
I never said that they did. You should, however, care more about the memories of the person than the persons dead body which they will no longer have a use for.
Yes, like the memory where I completely disregarded my loved one's wish to not have their body desecrated by the government.
Copyright law IS different in regards to recipes - they can't be copyrighted.
"Recipes" can't be copyrighted in that you can't sue a chef for making your recipe. However, the actual written text of a recipe can have copyrights and you can definitely sue someone for publishing, word-for-word, your recipe that you wrote. The written recipe is copyrightable, the actual proportions, sequence of steps, etc. is not copyrightable.
Do you know of many other UIs that aren't single threaded? I'm not talking about worker/background threads, but honest-to-God, draw stuff on the screen UI threads. Most UI frameworks actually require drawing and event handling from 1 thread, including Windows.Forms, Cocoa, GDK, etc. This usually isn't an issue, as any tasks that are somewhat CPU intensive shouldn't be handled in this thread. Also, Android runs a VM specialized for small-memory environments, like phones, and, as of Android 2.2, supports JIT compilation.
It would also make more sense as a lot of these open WiFi hot spots aren't really free, but instead bring up a payment screen when you try to access the web. Having the standard be "free" is silly.
IANAB(C), but there are already many well studied instances of proteins being modified after the fact. Including amino acids being swapped out wholesale. This happens in a somewhat predictable way, for (assumed) specific reasons. I don't see why messing w/ the RNA would really be out of the question (of course this shows a need for this type of research). If there is one thing we can say about life, it is that we are still very much outsiders looking in.
What's stopping someone from running an X server on top of Wayland. Most of those engineering students aren't even running linux, but running an X server on top of Windows or OS X that the clients on their school's server talk to. If you are talking about developers, I'm assuming most software will still use GUI libraries that abstract the actual underlying display tech and they will probably support X and Wayland (and may be Windows and Cocoa), so those will still have no problem using the student's X server. If there are any programs that use sufficiently advanced features of Wayland, then they're probably far too graphical to be running on a thin client anyway.
I JUST got a 2.1 update from TELUS (Canada) for my HTC Hero. It was several months after most other providers released the update. As far as I know, this is it for support for my phone; HTC only promised up to 2.1. It is annoying that phone companies sell 3 year contracts that come with a phone, when that phone is only supported for 1 year. For all the Apple bashing, at least they actually support their product for the expected lifetime of the device, rather than ditching it as soon as it hits that 1 year mark.
I assumed, since you said "we are going through the painful process of rewriting and certifying IE6 specific apps and migrating to IE8." You never mentioned going to a cross-browser solution, simply that you are migrating to IE8. I misunderstood.
We are going through the painful process of rewriting and certifying IE6 specific apps and migrating to IE8. Only after that is complete will we migrate to Win 7.
Honest question: How much of a discount do you actually get from a developer for creating an IE8-only solution vs., say, IE8, Firefox, and Chrome?
I learned a while ago that most RPGs are best played for their roleplaying aspect. Don't try to choose the combination that maxes out your characters potential, just play a character that you want to play and enjoy playing. If the game is a little harder for it, then you're doing it right.
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That is a silly analogy. In your case, we are talking about a VERY high cost for not following the safety procedures. In mine, we are talking about, at worst, a no-cost scenario, where a disabled user cannot access a document that would not have been available to him otherwise. He has lost nothing, but the vast majority of users have gained.
Let me offer you analogy. Someone offers you a lottery ticket for free. If you take it you either lose the lottery, in which case you are exactly where you started. If you win, you'll have a bunch of money. There is NO reason not to take the lottery ticket. The cost to you in either case is 0, but one (improbable) case has a very high pay out.
Now, suppose this same guy hands you a revolver w/ 1 bullet and says that if you survive, you'll get $1000000. However, if you lose you die. Even though there is a high chance you'll win, there is still a case where you may pay a VERY high cost. Suddenly you are in the position where you have to make a risk assessment. If you value your life, then the cost will probably be too high to take the chance.
Working as a web developer for the Canadian gov't, we had some similar rules for content. Mainly, you always had to provide it in the most accessible form possible. This usually meant HTML > PDF > Office Document. However, it was always on a best effort/convenience basis. So, if you posted PowerPoint slides, you also had to post the PDF versions, since making a PDF version was dead simple. However, we certainly weren't required to go all out and make a usable HTML version as well.
We also offered many things (eg. transcription or translation) on an "as requested" basis, since technically we were suppose to offer them, but realistically we didn't have the budget to do it for everything. This worked well.
I think just flat out banning PDFs is stupid. Require accessibility (best-effort), but allow for wiggle room. Yeah, it would be great if all PDFs had real text in them, but if the choice for some gov't agency is to either post an inaccessible version of the document or post nothing at all (because the time/cost required to make it accessible is too high), then they should be able to post the inaccessible version.
So far, in these comments, pretty much every pro-Diaspora commenter mentions how it's open source
I see a lot of people mentioning privacy concerns on Facebook, and the distributed aspects of Diaspora as the pros. There has actually been a nice lack of "OMG open source" comments so far.
$2000/m would be pretty hard to live on today. $2000/m 20 years from now is below minimum wage (inflation). A savings account with 2% will be hard to find. Especially one you can take $2000/m out of.
What an American college degree says is debt.
Unemployment isn't THAT high. Most jobs in North America right now are better than some shit job making the same fork all day, every day. In this day and age, you don't want your country's workforce to be skilled at making knick-knacks and cheap cutlery at 10x the cost of the rest of the world. You want an educated workforce that creates new ways of making cheap knick-knacks and cheap cutlery overseas. And, trust me, I lived in a blue-collar town for the last 8 years. Some people do some pretty menial stuff, but most manufacturing jobs here are a few steps above your average sweat shop.
One of my parent's cats figured out how to knock on the door. He rips the side moulding off a door, pulls it back, then lets go so it smacks the door. He continues this until you let him in. If that fail, he goes to every single window sill that he can reach until he finds you, then he meows and paws at the window until you notice and let him in. My cat is nowhere near as smart. He watched another cat for 2 hours, going in and out a hole in a screen door, until he finally realized he could do the same thing (up that point he just kept meowing at the door and trying to make a break for it every time it opened).
Fantastic comment. I tried playing Pokemon again, since I loved it so much as a kid. I played it for about 5 minutes, then all the memories of constant grinding to level up by wading through long-grass came back and I stopped playing. Just the thought of spending 2h doing nothing but fighting the same monsters over and over terrified me.
For me, it is more of a time vs. progress trade-off. I've had a hard time playing RPGs as of late because it seems I have to invest too much time just to reach the next "milestone."
I bought Fallout 3 for my PS3, but haven't felt motivated to play it unless I have at least a few hours of free time. On the other hand, I loved Killzone 2. It was fast-paced and an appropriate length - I played it over short bursts after work, before my wife came home. I think the only fairly long game I've actually completed in the past couple of years was Twilight Princess.
So what do you do when you an indie game that you want to play, only to find that it's a PC+Mac exclusive due to console makers adding organizational overhead that micro-ISVs have trouble covering?
Easy, I download and play them. The vast majority of "indie" games (that I've tried) run fine on my non-gaming, 4 year old laptop.
Well, the only cost to someone who has cheated for admitting to it is having to sit through 4h of a boring ethics class, whereas the penalty for not admitting it is possibly being expelled. At the very least, you'll be sitting through 4h of getting your ass reamed by academic affairs. The pay-off is nil in both cases, as your retaking the test regardless. You'd have to be stupid to not take that deal.
I used to think that way until PCI-e was introduced. Suddenly upgrading my graphics card meant upgrading my motherboard, CPU, and PSU as well. Pretty much leaving the disk drives as the only original equipment. That was when I got into console gaming. Every 6 odd years you can throw out your old system and buy a new one for a fraction of the cost of gaming PC. What's better, you know all the new games will run on your console for the next 6 years without having to "upgrade" anything.
What does organ donation have to do w/ the government removing random parts of your body for no reason? I'd love it if my organs helped save a life, but that doesn't mean my body is open for a free-for-all.
My car is an empty shell, it doesn't mean the government can come in and take my stereo. What gets me is the audacity of these people to think they have a right to someone else's body. My wife knows what I want for my body when I die, and even though I am not there, I still expect her and my family to respect my wishes. It is not up to the government to decide how my remains are handled. How you are buried and what you do with your organs after death can be a very personal and important issue to some people. Please treat it as such.
I never said that they did. You should, however, care more about the memories of the person than the persons dead body which they will no longer have a use for.
Yes, like the memory where I completely disregarded my loved one's wish to not have their body desecrated by the government.
Copyright law IS different in regards to recipes - they can't be copyrighted.
"Recipes" can't be copyrighted in that you can't sue a chef for making your recipe. However, the actual written text of a recipe can have copyrights and you can definitely sue someone for publishing, word-for-word, your recipe that you wrote. The written recipe is copyrightable, the actual proportions, sequence of steps, etc. is not copyrightable.
Do you know of many other UIs that aren't single threaded? I'm not talking about worker/background threads, but honest-to-God, draw stuff on the screen UI threads. Most UI frameworks actually require drawing and event handling from 1 thread, including Windows.Forms, Cocoa, GDK, etc. This usually isn't an issue, as any tasks that are somewhat CPU intensive shouldn't be handled in this thread. Also, Android runs a VM specialized for small-memory environments, like phones, and, as of Android 2.2, supports JIT compilation.
It would also make more sense as a lot of these open WiFi hot spots aren't really free, but instead bring up a payment screen when you try to access the web. Having the standard be "free" is silly.
IANAB(C), but there are already many well studied instances of proteins being modified after the fact. Including amino acids being swapped out wholesale. This happens in a somewhat predictable way, for (assumed) specific reasons. I don't see why messing w/ the RNA would really be out of the question (of course this shows a need for this type of research). If there is one thing we can say about life, it is that we are still very much outsiders looking in.
What's stopping someone from running an X server on top of Wayland. Most of those engineering students aren't even running linux, but running an X server on top of Windows or OS X that the clients on their school's server talk to. If you are talking about developers, I'm assuming most software will still use GUI libraries that abstract the actual underlying display tech and they will probably support X and Wayland (and may be Windows and Cocoa), so those will still have no problem using the student's X server. If there are any programs that use sufficiently advanced features of Wayland, then they're probably far too graphical to be running on a thin client anyway.
I JUST got a 2.1 update from TELUS (Canada) for my HTC Hero. It was several months after most other providers released the update. As far as I know, this is it for support for my phone; HTC only promised up to 2.1. It is annoying that phone companies sell 3 year contracts that come with a phone, when that phone is only supported for 1 year. For all the Apple bashing, at least they actually support their product for the expected lifetime of the device, rather than ditching it as soon as it hits that 1 year mark.
I assumed, since you said "we are going through the painful process of rewriting and certifying IE6 specific apps and migrating to IE8." You never mentioned going to a cross-browser solution, simply that you are migrating to IE8. I misunderstood.
We are going through the painful process of rewriting and certifying IE6 specific apps and migrating to IE8. Only after that is complete will we migrate to Win 7.
Honest question: How much of a discount do you actually get from a developer for creating an IE8-only solution vs., say, IE8, Firefox, and Chrome?
Sandboxie is the name of a program for Windows that can create and run programs in sandboxes.
I learned a while ago that most RPGs are best played for their roleplaying aspect. Don't try to choose the combination that maxes out your characters potential, just play a character that you want to play and enjoy playing. If the game is a little harder for it, then you're doing it right.