For example, when an average salary was $80K one guy showed up with $200K request. He could be good, but not that good. Besides, putting all eggs in one basket is foolish.
You cannot make up for that past violation by coming into compliance, and you cannot restore your license to use the code under the GPL license by coming into compliance.
I think the GP post is unusually bloodthirsty. If what he says (and I quoted) is true, then if an intern at IBM accidentally omits the COPYING file from a minor patch then IBM better be closing its illegal GPL enterprise, quickly! Or maybe it can weasel out of that for a million billion dollars per developer wronged. I think that is a very bad FUD to spread. If managers hear that they won't permit GPL code anywhere in the company, just to be on the safe side.
In case of commercial licenses, they rarely if ever say that you lose certain rights forever. You always can pay and restore the rights; business-wise commercial licenses are safer than GPL, again if we believe the GP poster.
The answer I always give for that is "WE can fix it, we have the source"
Not so fast please. Imagine for a moment that you have all the source code and all the resource files for MS Office 2007. The MS Office has a bug (crash when you do this and that a few times). Are you serious that you would drop your main work and dive into this huge codebase, having never seen it before in your life???
Your manager would forbid you to even look at the source, and he'd be right - you are not paid to fix MS Office, MS is, and the manager would do the right thing if he instead calls his paid MS support and requests a solution. Chances are the coder on the other end of the line either knows what this bug is about or how to debug it properly. MS has very decent support if you pay for it.
I don't know the specifics of the case, but here is how it usually goes. It's not that it is not working - it does. But it is not working as we want it to work today. There are always changes and improvements. Your case codes grew from 5 digits to 8 (to encode the region, for example) and that invalidated the old system. Now you can go back to the other codebase and patch it there, but some other change will require another patch, and so on. I can't think of a good reason to maintain two codebases when you don't have to (and desires of a geek in the server room do not count here.)
Choice of.NET for their business apps may be not the best, but it is reasonable. C# is in fact "Java Improved", and it is quite fast. The.NET libraries are immense, and free. They do everything. Development tools are free (though most companies want to pay for professional versions since they contain more useful stuff)..NET is preloaded on every Windows box. Windows itself is a sunk cost, and it's peanuts in any case.
On the global level, if we were making the Original Decision about doing.NET for the whole company, there could be arguments for this and that, Windows, Linux, Mac - whatever. That would be at least reasonable. However that late in the game, when all regions are using.NET and this one stays with LAMP, it does not make any sense for the tail to try to wag the dog (or to try to take its own way, independent from where the rest of the dog is going.) This battle is not worth fighting.
Seems like a good platform for covering squads with cross fire, and maybe in performing the designated marksman role.
I wonder if the auto-aim will be active when the soldier presses the R1 button? I always hate that minigun, powerful but not directional... Anyhow, this is really taking the GTA franchise to the next level. The next thing you do is commercialize - deploy hundreds of robots in Sadr City and sell Internet control ($100 per minute and $0.01 per bullet.)
I was careful to mention two (2) witnesses because they are all the proof that the law requires:
In accordance with the Qur'an and several hadith, theft is punished by imprisonment or amputation of hands or feet, depending on the number of times it was committed and depending on the item of theft. However, before the punishment is executed two eyewitnesses under oath must say that they saw the person stealing.
To say it again, if your two enemies choose to be false witnesses to your theft you will need an artificial hand soon. Those guys would not be risking much because even if one guy confesses later in false accusation, it's one man's word against another, it won't go anywhere, but your hand is gone already.
IANAL, but: The theater indeed does not have the ownership rights, but it unavoidably has certain obligations with respect to the movie materials that it rents from the studios. For example, you as a theater owner may rent the Transformers media, and show the movie in your theater - but you are not permitted to show it in your friend's theater, and you are not permitted to make a copy for yourself, and you are not permitted to allow others to copy the movie. With regard to the latter, probably your contract with the studio is very explicit on what you are expected and required to do to stay in compliance. Otherwise you can keep your theater, but nobody will rent you any movies.
The cinema experience is starting to become shabby, over-commercialized, and expensive.
Good on all counts. Shabby it is because we don't spend any money on repairs; over-commercialization brings us additional revenue, and expensive is what we live for, to take your money and make it ours.
If cinemas want to compete with increasingly large televisions and cheaper DVDs, then you need to look at the whole experience.
No, we don't want to compete with TV and DVD and home theaters. Those customers are lost to us long ago; they are demanding the best, and throwing so much cash at their hardware that we could never hope to match that. They are the topmost layer of viewers, and we'd have to demolish what we have and rebuild every single theater from scratch if we were to try to meet their expectations. Tickets would cost far more, of course - there is no free lunch - so we'd lose our primary audience. We don't see any way to satisfy those clients.
Yes, showing 4 commercials before the movie may bring in revenue in the short term,
That's all that counts. Bring the cash in, and book it.
but in the long term it is turning people off.
In the long term we are all dead. Besides, you overestimate needs and expectations of our usual movie-going crowd. We for many years cultivated the idea that the movie theater is not a shrine, like an Opera house might be, but a lowly pub where you eat, drink, watch a movie and spit on the floor as desired. Some people despise those barnyard habits - see the "elite" section above. They are not our customers. Other people love the style, and they don't mind some ads here and there. Many probably can't tell the difference between the ads and the movie anyhow.
I can say that if I had satellite TV, I would not be bothered to come to the theater as often as I do now.
If my grandmother had b@lls she would be my grandfather. [This is a real Russian expression, btw:-]
I hope that my local cinemas get a face-lift and a customer-service improvement soon.
Keep dreaming, sucker. If you choose to come to us you will pay, and that's all that matters. If not, we won't cry - a fool is born every minute, and we are ready for him.
It was a tiny digital photo camera (Canon PowerShot) and she probably carries it with her everywhere, just like a cell phone. I personally don't make a decision every morning on whether I take my cell phone with me today or leave it at home. It's automatic.
The TFA mentions that the "camcorder" is actually a Canon PowerShot camera, incapable of continuous recording for more than half a minute in any case, limited by Flash and battery. I have one, and it is hardly even a child's toy when it comes to taking a movie.
so if someone stole a million dollars, they would have to pay back more than a million dollars
You do not take into account the statistical properties of such theft. For example, if for stealing $1M one has to return the loot and pay $1M extra, then the thief can be caught at every other job and be even, or do better than that (fail every third job) and have a positive balance. If no jail time is involved the thief has every reason to rob banks as often as every day.
No, it will not. Many, if not most people who go to movies are incapable of remembering such fine details; they'd be lucky to remember the movie itself for a day or two. Besides, why would they care if some pirate was arrested? It's easy to jump to conclusions here, since someone was seen with a shiny photo/video gizmo. Nobody except the victim and her lawyers will know the truth.
He is talking about the main traction battery for his hybrid Accord. It's a 250V or something, and it probably weighs 100 lbs. There is a standard 12V (aux) battery in the car, and that you can replace yourself if you want to. Don't know what they did in Accord, but in Prius you can replace any battery yourself, including the high voltage one, and it is not difficult - provided that you are trained to work with high voltage components.
His point was that a whole army of terrorists can sneak in over the Mexican border while the DHS is frisking one German scientist.
To add to the misery, the German may be banned from entering forever, whereas if a terrorist is stopped at the Mexican border he will pretend to be a Mexican, be sent back to Mexico, and will try again in a few days - repeat until he is through. Mission accomplished.
Let it be here for a record: I never count the money that I get from an ATM. If I ask for $200 I might want to see that it's not $1 bills, but as long as the cash looks reasonable I won't go to the trouble of counting it. If the DA wants to prosecute me in such a rare case of the ATM fault, I don't know how can he prove that I knew about the error. The video tape from the ATM will only show the opposite - me folding the bills, shoving them into my pocket and walking away.
It wasn't meant as a 100% troll, though. In the professional world the word "works" is quite loaded. Many F/OSS projects are fine for individual use but are inadequate for business use, even if they are free. As an example, if the free tool takes longer to perform a task then it costs more, over time, than a paid-for package because you have to take salaries and other expenses into account. Or as another example, if you make ads and have some serious Photoshop/Illustrator scripting pipeline, no amount of GIMP freeness will compel you to switch. Not that GIMP does not work - and not that it has no scripting (it most definitely does) - the problem is that nobody is going to wreck the old setup (and pay dearly) just for sake of saving some small money on a software package.
In home use the situation is very different. I do not need to squeeze every second out of my financial spreadsheet, for example, it's not that huge to begin with. If OOCalc lacks some function or another I'll use another formula, I'm not picky. Basically, most people would not need Windows at home at all, except for PC games. But that "except" is quite serious. And as other people indicated, it's always easier to have the same computer setup at home as at work so you can bring work home if need be, and also you don't need to train yourself twice.
So all things considered, if an average man is asked whether he wants a Linux PC ($0 MS tax) or a Windows PC ($50 MS tax), on top of $500 for the hardware itself, the choice is not that hard - that average person will get more out of his Windows setup. A computer professional may answer differently, but that does not matter statistically.
90% of the things people are using it for can be done equally well in Open Office
That's not the real problem. The real problem is that 10% of the simple, everyday and compatible things people are using it for are different enough, or buggy, or hidden. For example, if you open a MS Word document with tracked changes the Word brings up the Revision toolbar where you can immediately work with changes. OO 2.2.0 does not even have the toolbar, and the only access to the revisions is through the menu "Edit" | "Changes" - which I had to search for in the help, so well it is hidden from view. Death by a thousand cuts (or a hundred of little problems) is not any less deadly than a death from one major defect. Besides, it's easier to fix one deadly bug than to change hundreds of stupidities that are entrenched in the controls and spread everywhere.
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For example, when an average salary was $80K one guy showed up with $200K request. He could be good, but not that good. Besides, putting all eggs in one basket is foolish.
I think the GP post is unusually bloodthirsty. If what he says (and I quoted) is true, then if an intern at IBM accidentally omits the COPYING file from a minor patch then IBM better be closing its illegal GPL enterprise, quickly! Or maybe it can weasel out of that for a million billion dollars per developer wronged. I think that is a very bad FUD to spread. If managers hear that they won't permit GPL code anywhere in the company, just to be on the safe side.
In case of commercial licenses, they rarely if ever say that you lose certain rights forever. You always can pay and restore the rights; business-wise commercial licenses are safer than GPL, again if we believe the GP poster.
Not so fast please. Imagine for a moment that you have all the source code and all the resource files for MS Office 2007. The MS Office has a bug (crash when you do this and that a few times). Are you serious that you would drop your main work and dive into this huge codebase, having never seen it before in your life???
Your manager would forbid you to even look at the source, and he'd be right - you are not paid to fix MS Office, MS is, and the manager would do the right thing if he instead calls his paid MS support and requests a solution. Chances are the coder on the other end of the line either knows what this bug is about or how to debug it properly. MS has very decent support if you pay for it.
I don't know the specifics of the case, but here is how it usually goes. It's not that it is not working - it does. But it is not working as we want it to work today. There are always changes and improvements. Your case codes grew from 5 digits to 8 (to encode the region, for example) and that invalidated the old system. Now you can go back to the other codebase and patch it there, but some other change will require another patch, and so on. I can't think of a good reason to maintain two codebases when you don't have to (and desires of a geek in the server room do not count here.)
Choice of .NET for their business apps may be not the best, but it is reasonable. C# is in fact "Java Improved", and it is quite fast. The .NET libraries are immense, and free. They do everything. Development tools are free (though most companies want to pay for professional versions since they contain more useful stuff). .NET is preloaded on every Windows box. Windows itself is a sunk cost, and it's peanuts in any case.
On the global level, if we were making the Original Decision about doing .NET for the whole company, there could be arguments for this and that, Windows, Linux, Mac - whatever. That would be at least reasonable. However that late in the game, when all regions are using .NET and this one stays with LAMP, it does not make any sense for the tail to try to wag the dog (or to try to take its own way, independent from where the rest of the dog is going.) This battle is not worth fighting.
I wonder if the auto-aim will be active when the soldier presses the R1 button? I always hate that minigun, powerful but not directional... Anyhow, this is really taking the GTA franchise to the next level. The next thing you do is commercialize - deploy hundreds of robots in Sadr City and sell Internet control ($100 per minute and $0.01 per bullet.)
In accordance with the Qur'an and several hadith, theft is punished by imprisonment or amputation of hands or feet, depending on the number of times it was committed and depending on the item of theft. However, before the punishment is executed two eyewitnesses under oath must say that they saw the person stealing.
Quoted from http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia
To say it again, if your two enemies choose to be false witnesses to your theft you will need an artificial hand soon. Those guys would not be risking much because even if one guy confesses later in false accusation, it's one man's word against another, it won't go anywhere, but your hand is gone already.
IANAL, but: The theater indeed does not have the ownership rights, but it unavoidably has certain obligations with respect to the movie materials that it rents from the studios. For example, you as a theater owner may rent the Transformers media, and show the movie in your theater - but you are not permitted to show it in your friend's theater, and you are not permitted to make a copy for yourself, and you are not permitted to allow others to copy the movie. With regard to the latter, probably your contract with the studio is very explicit on what you are expected and required to do to stay in compliance. Otherwise you can keep your theater, but nobody will rent you any movies.
You could also ask why women talk to each other seemingly endlessly, pointlessly and about nothing.
The cinema experience is starting to become shabby, over-commercialized, and expensive.
Good on all counts. Shabby it is because we don't spend any money on repairs; over-commercialization brings us additional revenue, and expensive is what we live for, to take your money and make it ours.
If cinemas want to compete with increasingly large televisions and cheaper DVDs, then you need to look at the whole experience.
No, we don't want to compete with TV and DVD and home theaters. Those customers are lost to us long ago; they are demanding the best, and throwing so much cash at their hardware that we could never hope to match that. They are the topmost layer of viewers, and we'd have to demolish what we have and rebuild every single theater from scratch if we were to try to meet their expectations. Tickets would cost far more, of course - there is no free lunch - so we'd lose our primary audience. We don't see any way to satisfy those clients.
Yes, showing 4 commercials before the movie may bring in revenue in the short term,
That's all that counts. Bring the cash in, and book it.
but in the long term it is turning people off.
In the long term we are all dead. Besides, you overestimate needs and expectations of our usual movie-going crowd. We for many years cultivated the idea that the movie theater is not a shrine, like an Opera house might be, but a lowly pub where you eat, drink, watch a movie and spit on the floor as desired. Some people despise those barnyard habits - see the "elite" section above. They are not our customers. Other people love the style, and they don't mind some ads here and there. Many probably can't tell the difference between the ads and the movie anyhow.
I can say that if I had satellite TV, I would not be bothered to come to the theater as often as I do now.
If my grandmother had b@lls she would be my grandfather. [This is a real Russian expression, btw :-]
I hope that my local cinemas get a face-lift and a customer-service improvement soon.
Keep dreaming, sucker. If you choose to come to us you will pay, and that's all that matters. If not, we won't cry - a fool is born every minute, and we are ready for him.
It was a tiny digital photo camera (Canon PowerShot) and she probably carries it with her everywhere, just like a cell phone. I personally don't make a decision every morning on whether I take my cell phone with me today or leave it at home. It's automatic.
The TFA mentions that the "camcorder" is actually a Canon PowerShot camera, incapable of continuous recording for more than half a minute in any case, limited by Flash and battery. I have one, and it is hardly even a child's toy when it comes to taking a movie.
Let me know which capital city treated you better.
Then don't squeal when your two enemies both claim that you stole something from them.
You do not take into account the statistical properties of such theft. For example, if for stealing $1M one has to return the loot and pay $1M extra, then the thief can be caught at every other job and be even, or do better than that (fail every third job) and have a positive balance. If no jail time is involved the thief has every reason to rob banks as often as every day.
No, it will not. Many, if not most people who go to movies are incapable of remembering such fine details; they'd be lucky to remember the movie itself for a day or two. Besides, why would they care if some pirate was arrested? It's easy to jump to conclusions here, since someone was seen with a shiny photo/video gizmo. Nobody except the victim and her lawyers will know the truth.
You are amazingly fast if you can swap batteries and SD cards between frames of the movie, and without losing even a millisecond of sound!
The apostrophe key is stuck.
To have the Supreme Court then explain that those laws apply only within that particular building, and only to people who physically painted the text?
But why? It's not like there is nowhere else to live.
He is talking about the main traction battery for his hybrid Accord. It's a 250V or something, and it probably weighs 100 lbs. There is a standard 12V (aux) battery in the car, and that you can replace yourself if you want to. Don't know what they did in Accord, but in Prius you can replace any battery yourself, including the high voltage one, and it is not difficult - provided that you are trained to work with high voltage components.
To add to the misery, the German may be banned from entering forever, whereas if a terrorist is stopped at the Mexican border he will pretend to be a Mexican, be sent back to Mexico, and will try again in a few days - repeat until he is through. Mission accomplished.
Let it be here for a record: I never count the money that I get from an ATM. If I ask for $200 I might want to see that it's not $1 bills, but as long as the cash looks reasonable I won't go to the trouble of counting it. If the DA wants to prosecute me in such a rare case of the ATM fault, I don't know how can he prove that I knew about the error. The video tape from the ATM will only show the opposite - me folding the bills, shoving them into my pocket and walking away.
In home use the situation is very different. I do not need to squeeze every second out of my financial spreadsheet, for example, it's not that huge to begin with. If OOCalc lacks some function or another I'll use another formula, I'm not picky. Basically, most people would not need Windows at home at all, except for PC games. But that "except" is quite serious. And as other people indicated, it's always easier to have the same computer setup at home as at work so you can bring work home if need be, and also you don't need to train yourself twice.
So all things considered, if an average man is asked whether he wants a Linux PC ($0 MS tax) or a Windows PC ($50 MS tax), on top of $500 for the hardware itself, the choice is not that hard - that average person will get more out of his Windows setup. A computer professional may answer differently, but that does not matter statistically.
That's not the real problem. The real problem is that 10% of the simple, everyday and compatible things people are using it for are different enough, or buggy, or hidden. For example, if you open a MS Word document with tracked changes the Word brings up the Revision toolbar where you can immediately work with changes. OO 2.2.0 does not even have the toolbar, and the only access to the revisions is through the menu "Edit" | "Changes" - which I had to search for in the help, so well it is hidden from view. Death by a thousand cuts (or a hundred of little problems) is not any less deadly than a death from one major defect. Besides, it's easier to fix one deadly bug than to change hundreds of stupidities that are entrenched in the controls and spread everywhere.
Imagine that you are ill and the doctor offers you a choice of two drugs. One is free. Another works. Which one will you take?