As the IT guy, your job is to optimize the productivity of the people who are getting the film made, right? Therefore you need to do a survey of everybody and find out what software they are all familiar with, and then you need to use that. If you need to train them on new software, then that is not only a waste of your time, but much more importantly, it's a waste of their time.
Don't use this as an opportunity to push your agenda. Just get them working immediately using whatever software they are currently comfortable with.
Regular users of Office 2007 and OpenOffice know that Office 2007 isn't merely superior "in some senses". It's in almost every sense, as long as you have a relatively modern computer.
I salute you, sir - whenever the Harkonnens took any prisoners of the civilian population of Arrakis, the survivors held a funeral for the hostages and acted as though they were dead. No leverage, no more hostages.
Why did this even get greenlit as an article? They don't have a replacement architecture ready? STOP THE PRESSES!!! They don't have a replacement architecture yet, either, for the rice paddy, but it's not like this is something of concern or even interest.
If there had been gridlock, your "idiots in the legislature" would not have been able to pass laws implementing programs that cost $43 billion.
Gridlock is great, and the founders of the country were geniuses for designing the government to make sure there was plenty of it. If only there could be more.
Seriously - I attempted this once with a different company and was not able to get the paper shares because they lacked a 'transfer agent' at that point. Make sure they can deliver.
You're going to have to cite sources on the 'requirement' and 'federal law' claims. Many companies buy satellite imagery from Russian companies, so what exactly is this law and who is the burden on?
Come on now, this is banal. There were then, and are now, laws about defamation, and there was never any intent to make defamation Constitutionally protected; and Wikileaks-posted material is subject to those laws the same as any other speech.
Releases are to avoid getting sued for violating someone's rights of publicity. You aren't required to do it because of some law.
Do you really think Google is without lawyers? They obviously believe that they're within their rights to publicly post photographs of people who were photographed in public, just as I am within my rights to photograph people in public and post them. What I can be sued for is to use your likeness as the label for my products, as this violates your ability to control the use of your image for commercial purposes. Your photo sitting on the side of the road (harvesting pot plants, perhaps) sitting in a photo database that has to do with looking at a location and not to sell something?
Google is doing Streetview perfectly correctly.
Parent post is right, you're in a job that 99% of the world dearly wishes they could have, you have to look at it that way. Use your disposable income to work on side projects that you can be passionate about, but keep the income producing job that after all you might lose anyway when the recession gets worse.
The article seems hellbent on insisting that a file system is "unacceptable" if it's not being continuously worked on. It admits that both ReiserFS 3 and JFS are stable and calls it "unacceptable" that the last major release was 4 years ago and bug fixing is on an as-needed basis.
This seems insane. If technology works, use it. I am not at all interested in beta testing someone's favorite ideas in a new file system.
So, 20 years from now, do you think *your* code for a half-finished project is going to have value to hard disk archaeologists of the future? Would you want them to even boot up your.exe?
Punks not dead and PS/2's not obsolete. When was the last time I needed to find a driver to make my mouse work at all? Never, because I have a PS/2 mouse.//Floppies are still punk too
Our use of RAM as users expands about as fast as our ability to add sticks of RAM to the box. If the latter happened at 1000 times the rate of the former, then in 15 years let's talk about the luxury of wasting RAM as a disk mirror.
There is no reason to have to lard up patent agreements with contractual terms and worsen the problem at the USPTO with the already-overworked patent examiners (the reason that bad patents get through in the first place). You would just do this with a clause in the license or contract, where the licensee or the purchaser would agree to whatever the terms are that you say, and then also agree to include that exact clause in any downstream licensing or sale, the same as the GPL works.
Anyway, the article is vague but seems to say that AT&T licensed the patent prior to its purchase by Rembrandt. That license is presumably still valid. If the license was revokable, then the licensee is stupid for relying on a revokable license for their whole business.
When you drive a car, the car becomes an extension of your body. For most people. Some people really struggle with the car and presumably it's more like trying to move around a prosthetic limb. Hey, at least we don't have nerve endings going through into the tires. Driving through the desert: "OW! OW! OW!"
Careful about running around and calling them heroes. If it was pilot error that caused this (pilot error causes >80% of plane crashes) then you won't be so quick to happily burble that they saved everyone. The initial reports seem to mostly have come from statements by the pilots that they lost power but - again, statistics and not a judgment on this case - pilots lie, too, and say things like "I lost power" rather than admitting, "I pulled back the throttle way too much, way too early, and the engines cut out, so I lost power".
I'd like to think they're heroes, sure; but the statistics warn otherwise.
Anyway, this entire subject should not have been greenlit because it's useless speculation.
(a) is irresponsible to even consider without knowing in detail about the project. If it's a 10 year old application that has had 10,000 bugs fixed over a grueling amount of time, like a web browser... well, ask Netscape how it worked out for them when they decided to reboot the development of Navigator.
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As the IT guy, your job is to optimize the productivity of the people who are getting the film made, right? Therefore you need to do a survey of everybody and find out what software they are all familiar with, and then you need to use that. If you need to train them on new software, then that is not only a waste of your time, but much more importantly, it's a waste of their time. Don't use this as an opportunity to push your agenda. Just get them working immediately using whatever software they are currently comfortable with.
Regular users of Office 2007 and OpenOffice know that Office 2007 isn't merely superior "in some senses". It's in almost every sense, as long as you have a relatively modern computer.
I salute you, sir - whenever the Harkonnens took any prisoners of the civilian population of Arrakis, the survivors held a funeral for the hostages and acted as though they were dead. No leverage, no more hostages.
So, have them keep the guns on the boat and don't bring them into the LBC. We've got enough, thanx.
You omitted that DRM also stops technologically inept users from making copies for their friends. Everyone is not pure of heart.
Why did this even get greenlit as an article? They don't have a replacement architecture ready? STOP THE PRESSES!!! They don't have a replacement architecture yet, either, for the rice paddy, but it's not like this is something of concern or even interest.
If there had been gridlock, your "idiots in the legislature" would not have been able to pass laws implementing programs that cost $43 billion. Gridlock is great, and the founders of the country were geniuses for designing the government to make sure there was plenty of it. If only there could be more.
Ask NASA whether they wish the US had converted to metric 20 years ago.
Seriously - I attempted this once with a different company and was not able to get the paper shares because they lacked a 'transfer agent' at that point. Make sure they can deliver.
You're going to have to cite sources on the 'requirement' and 'federal law' claims. Many companies buy satellite imagery from Russian companies, so what exactly is this law and who is the burden on?
Come on now, this is banal. There were then, and are now, laws about defamation, and there was never any intent to make defamation Constitutionally protected; and Wikileaks-posted material is subject to those laws the same as any other speech.
Your process would require about double the amount of time taken in the writing and responding to the original e-mails. Impractical.
Releases are to avoid getting sued for violating someone's rights of publicity. You aren't required to do it because of some law. Do you really think Google is without lawyers? They obviously believe that they're within their rights to publicly post photographs of people who were photographed in public, just as I am within my rights to photograph people in public and post them. What I can be sued for is to use your likeness as the label for my products, as this violates your ability to control the use of your image for commercial purposes. Your photo sitting on the side of the road (harvesting pot plants, perhaps) sitting in a photo database that has to do with looking at a location and not to sell something? Google is doing Streetview perfectly correctly.
Bad article, bad greenlight. Office is way beyond any of the web based 'productivity' apps.
Parent post is right, you're in a job that 99% of the world dearly wishes they could have, you have to look at it that way. Use your disposable income to work on side projects that you can be passionate about, but keep the income producing job that after all you might lose anyway when the recession gets worse.
The article seems hellbent on insisting that a file system is "unacceptable" if it's not being continuously worked on. It admits that both ReiserFS 3 and JFS are stable and calls it "unacceptable" that the last major release was 4 years ago and bug fixing is on an as-needed basis.
This seems insane. If technology works, use it. I am not at all interested in beta testing someone's favorite ideas in a new file system.
So, 20 years from now, do you think *your* code for a half-finished project is going to have value to hard disk archaeologists of the future? Would you want them to even boot up your .exe?
Punks not dead and PS/2's not obsolete. When was the last time I needed to find a driver to make my mouse work at all? Never, because I have a PS/2 mouse. //Floppies are still punk too
Our use of RAM as users expands about as fast as our ability to add sticks of RAM to the box. If the latter happened at 1000 times the rate of the former, then in 15 years let's talk about the luxury of wasting RAM as a disk mirror.
There is no reason to have to lard up patent agreements with contractual terms and worsen the problem at the USPTO with the already-overworked patent examiners (the reason that bad patents get through in the first place). You would just do this with a clause in the license or contract, where the licensee or the purchaser would agree to whatever the terms are that you say, and then also agree to include that exact clause in any downstream licensing or sale, the same as the GPL works. Anyway, the article is vague but seems to say that AT&T licensed the patent prior to its purchase by Rembrandt. That license is presumably still valid. If the license was revokable, then the licensee is stupid for relying on a revokable license for their whole business.
When you drive a car, the car becomes an extension of your body. For most people. Some people really struggle with the car and presumably it's more like trying to move around a prosthetic limb. Hey, at least we don't have nerve endings going through into the tires. Driving through the desert: "OW! OW! OW!"
Careful about running around and calling them heroes. If it was pilot error that caused this (pilot error causes >80% of plane crashes) then you won't be so quick to happily burble that they saved everyone. The initial reports seem to mostly have come from statements by the pilots that they lost power but - again, statistics and not a judgment on this case - pilots lie, too, and say things like "I lost power" rather than admitting, "I pulled back the throttle way too much, way too early, and the engines cut out, so I lost power".
I'd like to think they're heroes, sure; but the statistics warn otherwise.
Anyway, this entire subject should not have been greenlit because it's useless speculation.
This is a non-story. Rockets explode during their development.
(a) is irresponsible to even consider without knowing in detail about the project. If it's a 10 year old application that has had 10,000 bugs fixed over a grueling amount of time, like a web browser ... well, ask Netscape how it worked out for them when they decided to reboot the development of Navigator.
They surveyed ex-NASA people to ask whether spaceflight is worthwhile. Now I would like to ask the Slashdot community whether computers should exist.