In my environment (I work as a Sysadmin for a major academic institution) "not my job description" is actually enforced by our supervisors. I know PHP, MySQL, HTML etc and do some projects at home for friends and family, but if I were to do web development work at work, I would get slapped down as "not part of my job". I've even offered to assist our developers to help their workload (mostly a.Net shop, but a couple of PHP projects and really only one and a half PHP-knowledgable developers on staff) and I've been told specifically that unless I'm employed in a developer's position, I'm not to do development work. It's a strange little world, academia...
And that's why it's called "The Ivory Tower," since it's so disconnected from the way everyone else works.
In fact, can anyone remember which was the most recent 'great' movie?
Every time I think about a great movie, I go back to the Godfather or the like.
The most recent one I've seen is "The Artist." Unfortunately it's only playing in major cities (something like 16 screens nationwide in the US), so you may have to wait until DVD.
Of course, you also got movies from 1981 like Condorman and Pirahna 2, The Spawning, but it seems like the ratio of good movies to sucky movies were better.
Hey, James Cameron called Pirahna 2 the "finest killer flying fish movie ever made."
Hey, I own Xanadu on DVD. Watch it every once in awhile too. Where else am I going to get my roller-blading ancient greek muse-inspiring disco and Sinatra-singing ONJ and Gene Kelly tap dancing Don Bluth-animated Electric Light Orchestra fix? That's a pretty strict requirement list, and this movie hits them all...
People go to the movie theater for the experience of watching a movie in the theater. If that experience isn't better than watching it at home, they won't go to the theater. Home theaters have improved, and movie theaters have degraded. Fix that. And no, you don't get to control the home theaters.
That is, in fact, the number one reason why studios have been pushing 3D movies so much.
And now they are buying japanese properties like their is no tomorrow. Would you like to see a film on Yamato Space Cruiser in american terms ? It would suck royally (at least the japanese did a great CG film on Yamato).
You laugh, but that was long planned. The American adaptation had a redesigned USS Arizona crewed by a team of misfits and criminals flying to Gamilon instead of the Yamato crewed by the best and brightest in the world. Fortunately, it was a story treatment that was officially killed when Bob Iger replaced for Michael Eisner at Disney.
And ditch 3D. Yes, 50% of the audience likes it. But they're going to come anyway, 3D or 2D. Nobody ever refused to go to the cinema because a movie was 2D. The people you need to be concerned about are the 50% who no longer go to the cinema because they hate it.
Also ditch the audio. Talkies are a fad.
See The Artist if you can. A beautiful silent film recently released. Sound effects and voices are used sparingly in service of the plot. It seems like it would be a boring film given the summary, but it's one of the best movies I've seen this year.
Unfortunately, it's playing in only 17 theaters nationwide.:(
How could he get a legal smackdown, is there a law against changing your name to mark zuckerberg? Please clarify this for me, as I am at a complete loss of understanding for your statement....
There is no law against changing your name to Mark Zuckerberg, but it would be very damaging to his case. People who screw around with their cases a lot tend to end up on the losing end, the exceptionally rare "Chewbacca Defense" notwithstanding.
Of course, much will depend on the actual mindset of the judge. If he/she has a good sense of humor, the defendant might be ok. If the judge doesn't, then the defendant is really screwing himself.
It's not that smart a feat. It smacks of the sort of "legal logic" that Slashdotters like to think actually works, while in reality judges tend to frown upon people who try to be cute and fuck around and waste the court's time. This fellow is going to get a legal smackdown, and he looks like a complete moron and tool to non-Slashdotters, and Slashdotters won't like him because he's an advertiser managing an operation that was shady even by advertising standards.
That and the weird Calvinist (the preacher, not the kid) mindset that is deeply embedded in this country's psych will keep the Boogy man alive for many a generation.
Can you elaborate? Calvinist influence on drug policy?
We Americans love to romanticize our past and pretend everything here was the best, but the truth of it it is that some of our first colonies were settled by people who were such giant assholes that they got themselves kicked out of Europe.
Geeks like me who -actually- installed OtherOS were pretty disappointed when we found out that thanks to hardware locking that only true, pure jailbreaking would have allowed, that the actual PS/3 Linux was not all that much use. Cool to stare at for a few minutes, then you realize your computer does almost everything else better.
Sadly, all that seemed to do is make people sorry for poor Sony in its fight against the *eeeevil* hackers.
Actually from what I saw after so many stumbles people were asking "Jesus, can't they do anything right?" Or the more mild, "Boy, they're having some year, huh?" But those sentiments faded quickly. See, that's the problem, it doesn't -stick-. People forget quickly.
No. There is absolutely no way that this can be supported. Your "provider of a free service" angle can get bent.
Well that's nice and all, but if you try using that argument in a court, you won't get very far, and since this thread is talking about lawsuits, that's the part that matters.
Ah, then the 1% of this country should be happy with what the 1% are making in, say, Somalia? After all, it goes both ways.
I have the feeling the 1% in Somalia is doing quite well. All the aid that pours into that country goes somewhere (and hint: it's not the 99%ers of Somalia). Anarchy works very well for those with the resources to hold everyone else down.
The Tea Party isn't actually protesting anything. They seem to be desperately trying to cling to the status quo in which they've found themselves to be so comfortable.
"Health care for me, not for anyone else"
"No new taxes... for me"
etc, etc.
See the difference? They're trying to preserve their own position, not trying to actively change things. So, no, they're not protestors.
I'm... not sure you've actually been paying attention to the tea party protests. Are you mistaking them for the Republicans?
I'm not sure that I agree with Jefe, but I'm curious also. I'm not sure how OWS 'blends.' I suppose it's accepting as long as you're willing to be really angry at conservatives, but in general I feel like it's just as much class warfare now as the Tea Party is. And I had very high hopes for the now hopelessly-sidetracked OWS movement.
No, corruption or bribery couldn't possibly have to do with him stating that Sony did nothing wrong by advertising a feature of a product, selling you said product with that feature, then coming back later and removing it
That's right. Legally a company can advertise features in their product, then later remove them if the agreement says that they can remove them. Why does corruption and/or bribery of the judge have to be a factor if Sony is legally in the clear?
What needs to happen is people refusing agreements that have such stipulations in them, or taking their business elsewhere when the company becomes abusive. But the truth is that only a very small number of people actually care about this issue, and that's why Sony et all can get away with this sort of thing.
It has a lot more to do with Section 1 of Article Two of the United States Constitution. See also "natural born citizen"
That can be fixed. If Schwarzenegger hadn't blown his chances in California (mostly by not being a hardcore "Conservative") I think you'd see a lot of work now to amend that section.
But really, the environmentalism and his inability to break deadlocks imposed by the State Congress have torpedoed any chance that the Republican Party would want to go to bat on his behalf.
Cui Bono overrules misapplication of Occam, every time.
You said "Global Warming is a scam by Goldman Sachs. I argued how global warming was not a scam by Goldman Sachs. How is that a strawman?
Now if you'd actually said in the subject "Climate Derivatives are a scam by Goldman Sachs" then I wouldn't have had any problem with it. Carbon trading does little to actually address the stated problem, they only push it around.
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In my environment (I work as a Sysadmin for a major academic institution) "not my job description" is actually enforced by our supervisors. I know PHP, MySQL, HTML etc and do some projects at home for friends and family, but if I were to do web development work at work, I would get slapped down as "not part of my job". I've even offered to assist our developers to help their workload (mostly a .Net shop, but a couple of PHP projects and really only one and a half PHP-knowledgable developers on staff) and I've been told specifically that unless I'm employed in a developer's position, I'm not to do development work. It's a strange little world, academia...
And that's why it's called "The Ivory Tower," since it's so disconnected from the way everyone else works.
Agree.
In fact, can anyone remember which was the most recent 'great' movie?
Every time I think about a great movie, I go back to the Godfather or the like.
The most recent one I've seen is "The Artist." Unfortunately it's only playing in major cities (something like 16 screens nationwide in the US), so you may have to wait until DVD.
Of course, you also got movies from 1981 like Condorman and Pirahna 2, The Spawning, but it seems like the ratio of good movies to sucky movies were better.
Hey, James Cameron called Pirahna 2 the "finest killer flying fish movie ever made."
Hey, I own Xanadu on DVD. Watch it every once in awhile too. Where else am I going to get my roller-blading ancient greek muse-inspiring disco and Sinatra-singing ONJ and Gene Kelly tap dancing Don Bluth-animated Electric Light Orchestra fix? That's a pretty strict requirement list, and this movie hits them all...
In other words, to summarize both you and Ebert:
People go to the movie theater for the experience of watching a movie in the theater. If that experience isn't better than watching it at home, they won't go to the theater. Home theaters have improved, and movie theaters have degraded. Fix that. And no, you don't get to control the home theaters.
That is, in fact, the number one reason why studios have been pushing 3D movies so much.
And now they are buying japanese properties like their is no tomorrow. Would you like to see a film on Yamato Space Cruiser in american terms ? It would suck royally (at least the japanese did a great CG film on Yamato).
You laugh, but that was long planned. The American adaptation had a redesigned USS Arizona crewed by a team of misfits and criminals flying to Gamilon instead of the Yamato crewed by the best and brightest in the world. Fortunately, it was a story treatment that was officially killed when Bob Iger replaced for Michael Eisner at Disney.
And ditch 3D. Yes, 50% of the audience likes it. But they're going to come anyway, 3D or 2D. Nobody ever refused to go to the cinema because a movie was 2D. The people you need to be concerned about are the 50% who no longer go to the cinema because they hate it.
Also ditch the audio. Talkies are a fad.
See The Artist if you can. A beautiful silent film recently released. Sound effects and voices are used sparingly in service of the plot. It seems like it would be a boring film given the summary, but it's one of the best movies I've seen this year.
Unfortunately, it's playing in only 17 theaters nationwide. :(
Just curious, what's wrong with stadium seating? I quite like not having to look over the giant head of the 7-foot-tall person in front of me.
For me, the winner was the Jimmy Wales option. >_>
How could he get a legal smackdown, is there a law against changing your name to mark zuckerberg?
Please clarify this for me, as I am at a complete loss of understanding for your statement....
There is no law against changing your name to Mark Zuckerberg, but it would be very damaging to his case. People who screw around with their cases a lot tend to end up on the losing end, the exceptionally rare "Chewbacca Defense" notwithstanding.
Of course, much will depend on the actual mindset of the judge. If he/she has a good sense of humor, the defendant might be ok. If the judge doesn't, then the defendant is really screwing himself.
It's not that smart a feat. It smacks of the sort of "legal logic" that Slashdotters like to think actually works, while in reality judges tend to frown upon people who try to be cute and fuck around and waste the court's time. This fellow is going to get a legal smackdown, and he looks like a complete moron and tool to non-Slashdotters, and Slashdotters won't like him because he's an advertiser managing an operation that was shady even by advertising standards.
Again it's the company network. You're not the gatekeeper
He's the gatekeeper if the management set as one of his roles to be the gatekeeper.
That and the weird Calvinist (the preacher, not the kid) mindset that is deeply embedded in this country's psych will keep the Boogy man alive for many a generation.
Can you elaborate? Calvinist influence on drug policy?
We Americans love to romanticize our past and pretend everything here was the best, but the truth of it it is that some of our first colonies were settled by people who were such giant assholes that they got themselves kicked out of Europe.
Geeks like me who -actually- installed OtherOS were pretty disappointed when we found out that thanks to hardware locking that only true, pure jailbreaking would have allowed, that the actual PS/3 Linux was not all that much use. Cool to stare at for a few minutes, then you realize your computer does almost everything else better.
Sadly, all that seemed to do is make people sorry for poor Sony in its fight against the *eeeevil* hackers.
Actually from what I saw after so many stumbles people were asking "Jesus, can't they do anything right?" Or the more mild, "Boy, they're having some year, huh?" But those sentiments faded quickly. See, that's the problem, it doesn't -stick-. People forget quickly.
Sounds like a reach around deal to me to keep each other happy
I'd say from Youtube's perspective it's more like the deal to -avoid- an ass-pounding.
No. There is absolutely no way that this can be supported. Your "provider of a free service" angle can get bent.
Well that's nice and all, but if you try using that argument in a court, you won't get very far, and since this thread is talking about lawsuits, that's the part that matters.
At the risk of Godwining this thread, Hitler was Time Man of the Year
Yes, but you forget, he was picked when the editors of Time Magazine actually had balls.
Ah, then the 1% of this country should be happy with what the 1% are making in, say, Somalia? After all, it goes both ways.
I have the feeling the 1% in Somalia is doing quite well. All the aid that pours into that country goes somewhere (and hint: it's not the 99%ers of Somalia). Anarchy works very well for those with the resources to hold everyone else down.
The Tea Party isn't actually protesting anything. They seem to be desperately trying to cling to the status quo in which they've found themselves to be so comfortable.
"Health care for me, not for anyone else"
"No new taxes ... for me"
etc, etc.
See the difference? They're trying to preserve their own position, not trying to actively change things. So, no, they're not protestors.
I'm ... not sure you've actually been paying attention to the tea party protests. Are you mistaking them for the Republicans?
Deluded much?
I swear, it's like Madlibs.
Just fill in the blank (any blank) with "ACORN," "Obama," "socialism," "George Soros," and "left-wing media." It seems all interchangeable.
The vast amount of power that some of the loonies ascribe to ACORN is amazing.
I'm not sure that I agree with Jefe, but I'm curious also. I'm not sure how OWS 'blends.' I suppose it's accepting as long as you're willing to be really angry at conservatives, but in general I feel like it's just as much class warfare now as the Tea Party is. And I had very high hopes for the now hopelessly-sidetracked OWS movement.
No, corruption or bribery couldn't possibly have to do with him stating that Sony did nothing wrong by advertising a feature of a product, selling you said product with that feature, then coming back later and removing it
That's right. Legally a company can advertise features in their product, then later remove them if the agreement says that they can remove them. Why does corruption and/or bribery of the judge have to be a factor if Sony is legally in the clear?
What needs to happen is people refusing agreements that have such stipulations in them, or taking their business elsewhere when the company becomes abusive. But the truth is that only a very small number of people actually care about this issue, and that's why Sony et all can get away with this sort of thing.
It has a lot more to do with Section 1 of Article Two of the United States Constitution. See also "natural born citizen"
That can be fixed. If Schwarzenegger hadn't blown his chances in California (mostly by not being a hardcore "Conservative") I think you'd see a lot of work now to amend that section.
But really, the environmentalism and his inability to break deadlocks imposed by the State Congress have torpedoed any chance that the Republican Party would want to go to bat on his behalf.
Thanks for the strawman/ad hominem.
Cui Bono overrules misapplication of Occam, every time.
You said "Global Warming is a scam by Goldman Sachs. I argued how global warming was not a scam by Goldman Sachs. How is that a strawman?
Now if you'd actually said in the subject "Climate Derivatives are a scam by Goldman Sachs" then I wouldn't have had any problem with it. Carbon trading does little to actually address the stated problem, they only push it around.