Buy the rights, and then release it... Honestly, looking back, very few instances of these things happening have been the case...I mean, there are the cool companies that sometimes do it like the rare instances mentioned, and there's other companies that roll them out after their initial profitability has died (Quake, etc).
That said, short of buying the rights to the source, I doubt you'll get very far even with a petition. Look at us Linux users asking nVidia to fix the problems or opensource the blob...
Indeed. Further, it seemed like any time we asked to be paid so we could keep our own freaking lights, internet, power, etc going at home the boss would act like we were hurting the company by doing so. He wanted us to work for free and like it instead of do good work and get paid for it - I was one of the few who cared, and we all ended up leaving, getting the axe, or otherwise getting screwed.
I now work in a very great job at a university, but prior to, I worked as a social media developer at __unnamed company__. While my background was in programming using C++ and derivatives, I also knew php and Javascript so it wasn't a stretch to start working there, building Facebook apps and such.
They got me on board for a somewhat decent (out of college) hourly rate and gave me 250,000 shares of stock to sweeten the deal. Working remotely, I'd do 2-3 weeks onsite at the home office, and 2-3 weeks off, during the off times going back home - I got more done when I was at home, truth be told. I'd have to be up all hours of the day, sometimes getting 3-4 hours of sleep in between being called to fix some mistake someone made.
I ended up having to wait 2-4 weeks for my paychecks sometimes, all the while the boss was wining and dining people, and flying all over the place. I let it slide, and eventually got a bonus system added to my pay for completed work.
The 4th time I was to be paid a bonus (for taking over the role as sysadmin on top of everything else, as the previous guy left), I got paid but then they put a new guy over me, who got salaried making 3-4 times what I was, who used a completely different language than any of the other developers in the company. Three weeks later my boss breached my contract. I'm contemplating litigation.
From my experience there, you should most definitely always pay your employees first, and treat them with respect. Furthermore, going geeky and loose on schedules and such is fine, but you should require 40 hours a week from everyone, regardless of when or where they get the work done. Incentives are nice, but don't make them too good. Further, treat everyone equally in terms of praise and respect...Finally, make sure not to allow drama in the office, it only destroys companies from the inside out.
As an added bonus, you should make sure and not allow drinking and drug use in the work place. My former employer did, and there were a lot of useless sponges that just sat around drunk/high all the time.
I'm running ICS on both my HP Touchpad and my 2 year old droid2...
I'm running the AOKP rom, but it's a derivative of CM with more goodies included...runs like a clock on both devices, and my droid2 is actually faster and more usable now than it was when I bought it...
For those of you with older phones, you should check XDA and rootzwiki to see if there are better roms available for you...
Seriously, if we have to use the blob, it may as well have a framebuffer like every other driver that exists. I have to use it for VMWare, otherwise it'd be Nouveau.
Either way the teachers go, though, depends on the school district. In the end, it's really all about the money...most of the teachers really don't give a crap about the students or their education.
When I was going to American public schools prior to my college career, I found that my teachers all taught only the content that would appear on standardized tests, in an effort to fund themselves and the school more.
In fact, when my cohorts and I would refuse to take the portions of said tests or would write satire about how we hated the tests on the essay portions, the teachers would forcibly make us redo them according to the directions. Interesting, considering these tests were not recorded on my "permanent record," nor were they beneficial to me in any way. All the teachers cared about was getting a high overall score to get the school funded and increase their own paychecks.
As a result, only a few of the teachers who actually cared about the students ended up teaching anything of true value or usefulness for our futures. While some of that overlaps the content that was within the standardized tests, I can't help but think that taking those 2 weeks at the end of every year to take the practice tests and such would've been used better in other ways.
Really, classes need to be focused after grade 6 or 7 on being useful for future pursuits of specialized interest, focusing on practicality rather than general theory like they are now. I don't use the majority of what I had to learn in grade school or even college for my daily work (coincidentally, I work at a college).
These things don't really benefit the US any more than they would if each was done by and in the US by it's taxpayers. Globalization is a bad thing in a lot of ways. A focus on individual freedom is what is needed, to facilitate progress and contentment within the people of the world.
American Exceptionalism is what made this nation great, but with it's decline, America declines as a whole. While Romney is indeed a douche, he at least has more economic sense than Obama does. Between Bush and Obama, we've been hemorrhaging money like a drunken shipload of sailors.
I'm not one of those conspiracy guys, I'm just sick of douchebags running the country who care less about those who elected them to represent them and more about their kickbacks. Oh, and I voted for Ron Paul. Don't blame me for Romney.
I'm not responsible for anyone but myself and my family. Everyone else is their own problem. If I choose to donate towards other causes, fine, but compulsory bits of what I pay in going to these other ventures is not ok and not right.
I'm not responsible for the conditions in Africa, for example, however I donate to charities that help there. Note that 90% of charity funds get used for the actual cause versus 10-20% maximum actually getting used for such causes when a government is doing it. This is all wasteful and I'm not responsible for anything outside the borders of my nation.
If I help voluntarily that's generosity, if I'm forced to pay higher taxes to fund the UN and it's stupid campaigns, it's tyranny. I have no representation in those nations, and I had no say in choosing my reps to the UN, so I shouldn't be forced to fund it. No taxation without representation!
Actually, as an American, my monies for taxes already fund my local officials, fire, police, etc. I am arguing against using what I pay in to benefit people in any nation other than mine. If it is a charity case, let the charities. I regularly donate to handle it rather than the wasteful idiots running the UN. By "powers that be," Irefer to Obama, Bush, Clinton, and various others in the US and abroad pushing for globalism, when individualism and nationalism should take precedence. International law provides a foothold for the politicians of the world to take it over in a gobal socialist revolution, to enslave the masses more than we already are.
My tax dollars shouldn't be paying for that stuff. To each their own - I shouldn't have to fund vaccine programs, education, international response, world heritage sites, international disputes, distributing funds, or working for better labor conditions in any country other than my own. Should I choose to do so, I'd make a difference by spending my money only on things that aren't part of nations that do things I'm against.
As for the nuclear stuff and international conflicts, postage, and flights - the UN isn't really necessary here, as individual organizations could fill these roles. The UN is just an attempt by the powers that be to form a one world government.
The UN can kiss both sides of my rear - what have they actually done in the past 10-20 years that has actually been beneficial? I can understand the need to coordinate nations in order to maintain as much peace as possible, but having something like this with non-elected representatives makes no sense, especially since they try to govern things in all UN nations unilaterally.
I swear, I can't look at the front page without seeing at least 2-3 shill stories for Microsoft or Ubuntu/Canonical.
I just really don't care about or for Ubuntu. If starting off a relative on Linux, I'd probably use pure XFCE debian, or possibly mint...but I mean, seriously...please, can we get some real news other than Apple, Microsoft, and Canonical pimping themselves and bashing each other?
Ubuntu is a resource hog and IMHO sucks in general, but to each their own. Debian ARM or Archlinux ARM would be a much better choice.
I feel like this ubuntu bandwagon thing is more for n00bs and people who don't want to set everything up themselves...perhaps Canonical is somehow associated with the US government or something, and wants to get their foot in the door of most Linux users as well...
Either way...not a good use of resources, IMHO, when something like Debian or Arch would've been much more efficient and fast.
The support is where it's at with RedHat...
That said, I personally never use it or Cent anymore because they both are behind in terms of everything. Debian rocks for servers.
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They'll be getting lots of calls from all of the inept n00bs who got infected soon.
Buy the rights, and then release it... Honestly, looking back, very few instances of these things happening have been the case...I mean, there are the cool companies that sometimes do it like the rare instances mentioned, and there's other companies that roll them out after their initial profitability has died (Quake, etc).
That said, short of buying the rights to the source, I doubt you'll get very far even with a petition. Look at us Linux users asking nVidia to fix the problems or opensource the blob...
Neon build works great on my HP Touchpad...
Indeed. Further, it seemed like any time we asked to be paid so we could keep our own freaking lights, internet, power, etc going at home the boss would act like we were hurting the company by doing so. He wanted us to work for free and like it instead of do good work and get paid for it - I was one of the few who cared, and we all ended up leaving, getting the axe, or otherwise getting screwed.
I now work in a very great job at a university, but prior to, I worked as a social media developer at __unnamed company__. While my background was in programming using C++ and derivatives, I also knew php and Javascript so it wasn't a stretch to start working there, building Facebook apps and such.
They got me on board for a somewhat decent (out of college) hourly rate and gave me 250,000 shares of stock to sweeten the deal. Working remotely, I'd do 2-3 weeks onsite at the home office, and 2-3 weeks off, during the off times going back home - I got more done when I was at home, truth be told. I'd have to be up all hours of the day, sometimes getting 3-4 hours of sleep in between being called to fix some mistake someone made.
I ended up having to wait 2-4 weeks for my paychecks sometimes, all the while the boss was wining and dining people, and flying all over the place. I let it slide, and eventually got a bonus system added to my pay for completed work.
The 4th time I was to be paid a bonus (for taking over the role as sysadmin on top of everything else, as the previous guy left), I got paid but then they put a new guy over me, who got salaried making 3-4 times what I was, who used a completely different language than any of the other developers in the company. Three weeks later my boss breached my contract. I'm contemplating litigation.
From my experience there, you should most definitely always pay your employees first, and treat them with respect. Furthermore, going geeky and loose on schedules and such is fine, but you should require 40 hours a week from everyone, regardless of when or where they get the work done. Incentives are nice, but don't make them too good. Further, treat everyone equally in terms of praise and respect...Finally, make sure not to allow drama in the office, it only destroys companies from the inside out.
As an added bonus, you should make sure and not allow drinking and drug use in the work place. My former employer did, and there were a lot of useless sponges that just sat around drunk/high all the time.
Use a VPN that doesn't keep logs.
Something to the effect of ignoring government intrusions, investigations, backdoors, etc...
I'm running ICS on both my HP Touchpad and my 2 year old droid2...
I'm running the AOKP rom, but it's a derivative of CM with more goodies included...runs like a clock on both devices, and my droid2 is actually faster and more usable now than it was when I bought it...
For those of you with older phones, you should check XDA and rootzwiki to see if there are better roms available for you...
Seriously, if we have to use the blob, it may as well have a framebuffer like every other driver that exists. I have to use it for VMWare, otherwise it'd be Nouveau.
Especially since it's obvious Google paid for it and possibly wrote it.
I'll take 2 please. The school systems were originally meant to be funded and controlled by the locales in which they reside. So much for freedom.
You're extremely biased. A teacher, perhaps?
Same here, because they were easy for me.
Either way the teachers go, though, depends on the school district. In the end, it's really all about the money...most of the teachers really don't give a crap about the students or their education.
Yes, but it's actually illegal for them to review the tests, let alone coerce students to change their answers.
I forget where the article was, but I read recently that fraud is very common - teachers changing answers themselves and such...
Here are some to wet your whistle.
When I was going to American public schools prior to my college career, I found that my teachers all taught only the content that would appear on standardized tests, in an effort to fund themselves and the school more.
In fact, when my cohorts and I would refuse to take the portions of said tests or would write satire about how we hated the tests on the essay portions, the teachers would forcibly make us redo them according to the directions. Interesting, considering these tests were not recorded on my "permanent record," nor were they beneficial to me in any way. All the teachers cared about was getting a high overall score to get the school funded and increase their own paychecks.
As a result, only a few of the teachers who actually cared about the students ended up teaching anything of true value or usefulness for our futures. While some of that overlaps the content that was within the standardized tests, I can't help but think that taking those 2 weeks at the end of every year to take the practice tests and such would've been used better in other ways.
Really, classes need to be focused after grade 6 or 7 on being useful for future pursuits of specialized interest, focusing on practicality rather than general theory like they are now. I don't use the majority of what I had to learn in grade school or even college for my daily work (coincidentally, I work at a college).
These things don't really benefit the US any more than they would if each was done by and in the US by it's taxpayers. Globalization is a bad thing in a lot of ways. A focus on individual freedom is what is needed, to facilitate progress and contentment within the people of the world.
American Exceptionalism is what made this nation great, but with it's decline, America declines as a whole. While Romney is indeed a douche, he at least has more economic sense than Obama does. Between Bush and Obama, we've been hemorrhaging money like a drunken shipload of sailors.
I'm not one of those conspiracy guys, I'm just sick of douchebags running the country who care less about those who elected them to represent them and more about their kickbacks. Oh, and I voted for Ron Paul. Don't blame me for Romney.
I'm not responsible for anyone but myself and my family. Everyone else is their own problem. If I choose to donate towards other causes, fine, but compulsory bits of what I pay in going to these other ventures is not ok and not right.
I'm not responsible for the conditions in Africa, for example, however I donate to charities that help there. Note that 90% of charity funds get used for the actual cause versus 10-20% maximum actually getting used for such causes when a government is doing it. This is all wasteful and I'm not responsible for anything outside the borders of my nation.
If I help voluntarily that's generosity, if I'm forced to pay higher taxes to fund the UN and it's stupid campaigns, it's tyranny. I have no representation in those nations, and I had no say in choosing my reps to the UN, so I shouldn't be forced to fund it. No taxation without representation!
Actually, as an American, my monies for taxes already fund my local officials, fire, police, etc. I am arguing against using what I pay in to benefit people in any nation other than mine. If it is a charity case, let the charities. I regularly donate to handle it rather than the wasteful idiots running the UN. By "powers that be," Irefer to Obama, Bush, Clinton, and various others in the US and abroad pushing for globalism, when individualism and nationalism should take precedence. International law provides a foothold for the politicians of the world to take it over in a gobal socialist revolution, to enslave the masses more than we already are.
My tax dollars shouldn't be paying for that stuff. To each their own - I shouldn't have to fund vaccine programs, education, international response, world heritage sites, international disputes, distributing funds, or working for better labor conditions in any country other than my own. Should I choose to do so, I'd make a difference by spending my money only on things that aren't part of nations that do things I'm against.
As for the nuclear stuff and international conflicts, postage, and flights - the UN isn't really necessary here, as individual organizations could fill these roles. The UN is just an attempt by the powers that be to form a one world government.
And the price will come down another $10-20...
The UN can kiss both sides of my rear - what have they actually done in the past 10-20 years that has actually been beneficial? I can understand the need to coordinate nations in order to maintain as much peace as possible, but having something like this with non-elected representatives makes no sense, especially since they try to govern things in all UN nations unilaterally.
I swear, I can't look at the front page without seeing at least 2-3 shill stories for Microsoft or Ubuntu/Canonical.
I just really don't care about or for Ubuntu. If starting off a relative on Linux, I'd probably use pure XFCE debian, or possibly mint...but I mean, seriously...please, can we get some real news other than Apple, Microsoft, and Canonical pimping themselves and bashing each other?
Indeed. I've been using XFCE since KDE3 became 4 and jumped the shark...
Ubuntu is a resource hog and IMHO sucks in general, but to each their own. Debian ARM or Archlinux ARM would be a much better choice.
I feel like this ubuntu bandwagon thing is more for n00bs and people who don't want to set everything up themselves...perhaps Canonical is somehow associated with the US government or something, and wants to get their foot in the door of most Linux users as well...
Either way...not a good use of resources, IMHO, when something like Debian or Arch would've been much more efficient and fast.
The support is where it's at with RedHat... That said, I personally never use it or Cent anymore because they both are behind in terms of everything. Debian rocks for servers.