In that case you just stole my comment right there. If I had lawyers I could make you go to prison. Right?
Of course I know the code wasn't his. But is this theft?
Tell that to all those who lost their bitcoins at Mt. Gox. It wasn't real currency, it was simply 1's and 0's right?
The employer then essentially provides a spec (which is often just a extremely vague set of requirements) and a monthly salary. We can therefore say that most of the software is created by the creative talent and skill (the raw material and machines in your analogy) of the developers. Does the work created by the software dev still completely belong to the employer for a few thousand dollars because of a few words written in the employment contract? I think not! Most of software is written by developers with little contribution from the employer and therefore should be licensed to the employer the same way a song is licensed by the musicians to record labels, how writers license their books to publishers etc.
That sounds great, except that's not the contract that was agreed upon. If the agreement states that the developer is licensing the code to the employer, then great. But if a developer chooses to enter into what is currently the standard contract, then no, it doesn't work that way. If the developer enters into this type of agreement, then they can't simply decide it's going to work the other way. They can renegotiate with the employer for a different contract or leave the company.
And there is a considerable investment by the company. Not only do they need to pay for the items that you describe, but software, network expenses, and keeping those computer up to date. Chairs and desks do wear out. And rent and electricity are not one time investments. However the real expenses are in the marketing, packaging, support of the product, etc. If it was as simple as one guy sitting at a computer and coding all day, then every developer would have their own business. But it's not that simple. How many software companies go under and lose all of the invested money? Someone has to finance it all, so they are taking a big risk. If you think otherwise, you are even more naive than I would have guessed.
Perhaps use this type of drug to allow a prisoner to serve their twenty year sentence in considerably less "real time". That way they still serve their time and can get out young enough to attempt to contribute to society. I would think that the threat of a 1000 year sentence would scare the crap out of at least some criminals, though not all.
"The most prominent folk theory for the benefits of self-trepanation is offered by Bart Huges, alternatively spelled Bart Hughes and sometimes called "Dr. Bart Hughes", although he is not a doctor but rather a librarian by trade. He was better known for his advocacy of drug use and trepanation and in 1965 he drilled a hole in his own head with a Black and Decker power drill as a publicity stunt. Hughes claims that trepanation increases "brain blood volume" and thereby enhances cerebral metabolism in a manner similar to cerebral vasodilators such as ginkgo biloba. No published results have supported these claims."
I knew someone who wrote many letters and emails to Black and Decker back in the 1990's requesting a recommendation for which drill bit to use for self-trepanation. It was an amusing joke. He got dozens of panicky replies and was contacted by their lawyers who informed him that they did not support him using their power tools for medical procedures. He finally did receive a reply from someone with a sense of humor though. I kept a copy of that email chain for years.. I wish I still had it, or knew where it was.
It's interesting that no one is questioning the basic premise of this article: that the US puts more resources into remedial students than gifted. It makes for just one more thing people can complain and get self-righteous about, but my experience in Virginia schools is just the opposite. Here in Virginia, my gifted friends got to attend special highly-funded magnet schools or got to attend the #1 public high school in the country and the gifted classrooms at my high school got the best supplies and brightest teachers. As someone who was originally tracked in remedial everything and had to fight his way up to advanced-level courses, I can tell you that the remedial classes received no instruction whatsoever and were basically just holding-pens for students until they turned 18 and the system could kick them out.
Maybe some states don't have a gifted program, but before we all go tilting at windmills, maybe we should realize this is a state-level problem, one that does not apply to Virginia, and may not apply to your state either.
My daughter is in all of the "gifted" programs that are available. Last year she came home with ten math problems for homework every afternoon. I noticed a few weeks later that she was getting done faster than she had been, so I asked her what was going on. It ended up that some of the students were having trouble with ten problems. So the teacher reduced the number to five, then eventually two questions per day. We were told that it wasn't fair to the students who couldn't answer them all
I live in Virginia and have a ten year old in the public school system. I'm not from the area, but my wife is. What you describe is similar to when she was in school, but times have changed. She graduated thirty yeas ago. Still, Virginia seems to have a better system than several of the neighboring states though.
That's the same eugenic push a certain german chancellor pushed with his master race
I always find it interesting how Germany is pointed at as an example of eugenics when the US started it several decades prior to Germany. In fact, it was the US programs which inspired Germany.
There were even suggestions in the early 1900's, in the US, to use gas chambers to weed out the undesirables.
But don't let reality get in the way. It was those evil Nazis that started it.
Sounds like the perfect place to sell burial plots to the rich. Their corpses can remain intact for thousands of years. And the fear of radiation poisoning will keep grave robbers away. As a bonus, it will save more land from being developed into wasted space. And this land that can't be used by the living will become useful as well. Sounds like a win-win to me.
FTA: adopt an universal charger for mobile phones and tablets, as well.
It includes tablets. Hell, it mentions that they're mandating a universal standard for laptop powersupplies, which given the difference between a 'notebook' and a gaming laptop seems a bit premature. 80W vs 200W is a big change.
I agree. My work laptop is a "desktop replacement" and uses a 250 watt power supply. It's the same length and width as a red clay brick(perhaps a little more), but a little under half the height. I can't imagine requiring someone with a net-book to use this. It probably weighs more than most smaller laptops do.
I didn't read TFA, but glanced at the first part of it that you quoted. It's not clear if they mean that phones all need to use one kind of charger and tablets need to use their own separate standard. Or if they mean that both tablets and phones need to be both share the same charger requirements. I can see making two separate required standards. One for tablets and one for phones.
Also in reference to your previous comment:
you're using higher power chargers for lower power devices, which generally uses more resources
That's not necessarily true. If you are taxing a charger to its limit, there will be a lot more waste heat. Using a charger that is running at half its max will generally be more efficient. The device is only going to draw the maximum it can, nothing more. If you have a device that draws.5 watts, that's all it will draw from a charger. Even one that can deliver twice that. Minus losses to resistance etc. As long as the voltage matches the device, it will only draw the max amps it can.
Thats because the iPhone method is the best. You android dumb asses are too stupid to realize that.
Perhaps if Apple wasn't so damn greedy and would let everyone use it we would realize it. But as it is, I'd rather have a phone that meets my needs and has a lesser charging port than the other way around.
What happens when you mandate a single charger suitable for vehicles like the Leaf, then you have Tesla attempting to produce a long-range vehicle? The 'superchargers' that Tesla is building overpowers most 'fast chargers' out there by a substantial amount.
Do you mandate that all chargers reach the Tesla's level, or do you cripple Tesla?
But we're not talking about cars. We're talking about phones. It's unlikely they're going to need 1.21 gigawatt chargers anytime soon. Even if they do, manufacturers can put two charging ports on the device. One that meets the requirements of the law and one that charges faster. If it becomes a major issue, the law can be changed. I'd rather see several unnecessary tons of trash not end up in a landfill than to put it there for what is currently nothing more than an imaginary issue.
how is me talking about charger compatibility considered off topic?? lol
You must be new here.
Obviously you've upset a Samsung fanboi. An Apple fanboi will mod you as insightful shortly. I'm screwed as they will both mod me a troll for pointing this out.
The micro use on my phone has been used well more then hundreds of times, and shows no signs of failing.
Well I'm envious. My Samsung Galaxy S3 is right around two years old and the connector is failing. Last week it was only charging about half the time when I plugged it in. Now it's charging, but no longer shows up when I plug it into my computer. I've tried it on five different cables. Two of which are new.
Grow the fuck up and learn some respect for a different perspective / belief.
I believe that god is seventeen giant, 65 foot long orange lizards, all who are named 'Ralph'. They have mile long, glittering prehensile cocks that drag behind them. Ralph^17 will sail invisibly across the sky once per hour, where all humans on the planet must turn to the South, and bow while chanting, 'Rubber Button' for one minute in order to avoid Ralph's divine and righteous wrath. His son is a stop sign three miles south of Yuma, and all who are able must journey to see him once in their life, lest they be dammed to spend Christmas vacation in New Jersey for all eternity. I demand the same respect that these goofy christian mono-godders get, up to and including wording on American money acknowledging Ralph^17's almighty farts. BOW, HEATHENS!
I mock you sir, for failing to respect that some people's perspective and beliefs are that 'invisible shit isn't real, and that you should call out the Emperor as naked when he is'.
I find your idea intriguing and wold like to subscribe to your news letter.
plus the thought of spending eternity in New Jersey scares the bejeba... Sorry I meant stop sign out of me.
"Outed" an assault rifle owner? I wasn't aware guns had been banned in the United States. Stop trying to act like perfectly legal actions are illegal to further your already-weak agenda.
Actually owning an "assault rifle" without proper permission is illegal. Assault rifles are whatb the military uses and can be scheduled automatic, fully automated, or have the ability to switch between those and/or semiautomatic
Assault weapons on the other hand are a political term for a semiautomatic rifle, shotgun, or handgun that looks big and scary. The Intratec Tec-9 is a perfect example. It's a large 9mm handgun with a large shroud around the barrel and looks lke a military weapon. Buts it's a very poor weapon, even by handgun standards. Unless you are firing it at point blank, you're probably better off throwing it at your target.
Or we can keep the program going. You can send me a self addressed, stamped envelope and I'll send you the fraction of a cent that you will have to contribute to the mars rover for this year.
If Compaq had put a cellular radio in an iPaq, we would have had Windows Phones circa 2000, LONG before the iPhone.
I don't know exactly when HP did this, but I had an iPaq phone in 2005. So it was certanly around before the iPhone. I think one of the reasons no other company made an iPhone like product was the thinking at the time was that mobile phones were expensive already. Who would have thought the masses were going to pay $600 -$800 for a phone.
You're providing incomplete, one-sided calculations. So this is propaganda.
You mean the truth side? To add to that, all of these transfers from one mode of transportation to another will increase the likelihood of accidental spills. Plus a pipeline would be somewhat less prone to accidents.
Here's some balance, just for you:
The pipeline will kill all of the remaining pink unicorns left in the United States. Cause the sun to go supernova. Destabilize the Chinese economy to the point that thet will be forced to randomly nuke countries all over the world. And worst of all, be the sole catalyst for triggering the heat death of the universe.
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Fred Phelps has now gone to be with God in Heaven. RIP, brave soldier of Christ. RIP.
I guess Lucien Greaves will be making a trip to his grave to turn Fred Phelps' soul gay any day now.
Is there any chance of a Babylon 5 movie, or even a series reboot?
In that case you just stole my comment right there. If I had lawyers I could make you go to prison. Right? Of course I know the code wasn't his. But is this theft?
Tell that to all those who lost their bitcoins at Mt. Gox. It wasn't real currency, it was simply 1's and 0's right?
The employer then essentially provides a spec (which is often just a extremely vague set of requirements) and a monthly salary. We can therefore say that most of the software is created by the creative talent and skill (the raw material and machines in your analogy) of the developers. Does the work created by the software dev still completely belong to the employer for a few thousand dollars because of a few words written in the employment contract? I think not! Most of software is written by developers with little contribution from the employer and therefore should be licensed to the employer the same way a song is licensed by the musicians to record labels, how writers license their books to publishers etc.
That sounds great, except that's not the contract that was agreed upon. If the agreement states that the developer is licensing the code to the employer, then great. But if a developer chooses to enter into what is currently the standard contract, then no, it doesn't work that way. If the developer enters into this type of agreement, then they can't simply decide it's going to work the other way. They can renegotiate with the employer for a different contract or leave the company.
And there is a considerable investment by the company. Not only do they need to pay for the items that you describe, but software, network expenses, and keeping those computer up to date. Chairs and desks do wear out. And rent and electricity are not one time investments. However the real expenses are in the marketing, packaging, support of the product, etc. If it was as simple as one guy sitting at a computer and coding all day, then every developer would have their own business. But it's not that simple. How many software companies go under and lose all of the invested money? Someone has to finance it all, so they are taking a big risk. If you think otherwise, you are even more naive than I would have guessed.
Perhaps use this type of drug to allow a prisoner to serve their twenty year sentence in considerably less "real time". That way they still serve their time and can get out young enough to attempt to contribute to society. I would think that the threat of a 1000 year sentence would scare the crap out of at least some criminals, though not all.
"The most prominent folk theory for the benefits of self-trepanation is offered by Bart Huges, alternatively spelled Bart Hughes and sometimes called "Dr. Bart Hughes", although he is not a doctor but rather a librarian by trade. He was better known for his advocacy of drug use and trepanation and in 1965 he drilled a hole in his own head with a Black and Decker power drill as a publicity stunt. Hughes claims that trepanation increases "brain blood volume" and thereby enhances cerebral metabolism in a manner similar to cerebral vasodilators such as ginkgo biloba. No published results have supported these claims."
I knew someone who wrote many letters and emails to Black and Decker back in the 1990's requesting a recommendation for which drill bit to use for self-trepanation. It was an amusing joke. He got dozens of panicky replies and was contacted by their lawyers who informed him that they did not support him using their power tools for medical procedures. He finally did receive a reply from someone with a sense of humor though. I kept a copy of that email chain for years.. I wish I still had it, or knew where it was.
It's interesting that no one is questioning the basic premise of this article: that the US puts more resources into remedial students than gifted. It makes for just one more thing people can complain and get self-righteous about, but my experience in Virginia schools is just the opposite. Here in Virginia, my gifted friends got to attend special highly-funded magnet schools or got to attend the #1 public high school in the country and the gifted classrooms at my high school got the best supplies and brightest teachers. As someone who was originally tracked in remedial everything and had to fight his way up to advanced-level courses, I can tell you that the remedial classes received no instruction whatsoever and were basically just holding-pens for students until they turned 18 and the system could kick them out.
Maybe some states don't have a gifted program, but before we all go tilting at windmills, maybe we should realize this is a state-level problem, one that does not apply to Virginia, and may not apply to your state either.
My daughter is in all of the "gifted" programs that are available. Last year she came home with ten math problems for homework every afternoon. I noticed a few weeks later that she was getting done faster than she had been, so I asked her what was going on. It ended up that some of the students were having trouble with ten problems. So the teacher reduced the number to five, then eventually two questions per day. We were told that it wasn't fair to the students who couldn't answer them all I live in Virginia and have a ten year old in the public school system. I'm not from the area, but my wife is. What you describe is similar to when she was in school, but times have changed. She graduated thirty yeas ago. Still, Virginia seems to have a better system than several of the neighboring states though.
That's the same eugenic push a certain german chancellor pushed with his master race
I always find it interesting how Germany is pointed at as an example of eugenics when the US started it several decades prior to Germany. In fact, it was the US programs which inspired Germany.
There were even suggestions in the early 1900's, in the US, to use gas chambers to weed out the undesirables.
But don't let reality get in the way. It was those evil Nazis that started it.
Sure, let's put dead bodies into highly radioactive zones and not expect people to have a zombie scare.
Meh. The CDC already has a plan for that.
Sounds like the perfect place to sell burial plots to the rich. Their corpses can remain intact for thousands of years. And the fear of radiation poisoning will keep grave robbers away. As a bonus, it will save more land from being developed into wasted space. And this land that can't be used by the living will become useful as well. Sounds like a win-win to me.
FTA: adopt an universal charger for mobile phones and tablets, as well.
It includes tablets. Hell, it mentions that they're mandating a universal standard for laptop powersupplies, which given the difference between a 'notebook' and a gaming laptop seems a bit premature. 80W vs 200W is a big change.
I agree. My work laptop is a "desktop replacement" and uses a 250 watt power supply. It's the same length and width as a red clay brick(perhaps a little more), but a little under half the height. I can't imagine requiring someone with a net-book to use this. It probably weighs more than most smaller laptops do.
I didn't read TFA, but glanced at the first part of it that you quoted. It's not clear if they mean that phones all need to use one kind of charger and tablets need to use their own separate standard. Or if they mean that both tablets and phones need to be both share the same charger requirements. I can see making two separate required standards. One for tablets and one for phones.
Also in reference to your previous comment:
you're using higher power chargers for lower power devices, which generally uses more resources
That's not necessarily true. If you are taxing a charger to its limit, there will be a lot more waste heat. Using a charger that is running at half its max will generally be more efficient. The device is only going to draw the maximum it can, nothing more. If you have a device that draws .5 watts, that's all it will draw from a charger. Even one that can deliver twice that. Minus losses to resistance etc. As long as the voltage matches the device, it will only draw the max amps it can.
overweight soccer moms running the weightwatchers app. Their kids chatting on failbook.
It's sad, but computing has finally become mainstream enough to start degenerating along with the rest of society.
I suddenly feel very depressed.
I didn't rtfa, but it appears this is about phones, not tablets.
Thats because the iPhone method is the best. You android dumb asses are too stupid to realize that.
Perhaps if Apple wasn't so damn greedy and would let everyone use it we would realize it. But as it is, I'd rather have a phone that meets my needs and has a lesser charging port than the other way around.
Well, consider electric cars for a moment.
What happens when you mandate a single charger suitable for vehicles like the Leaf, then you have Tesla attempting to produce a long-range vehicle? The 'superchargers' that Tesla is building overpowers most 'fast chargers' out there by a substantial amount.
Do you mandate that all chargers reach the Tesla's level, or do you cripple Tesla?
But we're not talking about cars. We're talking about phones. It's unlikely they're going to need 1.21 gigawatt chargers anytime soon. Even if they do, manufacturers can put two charging ports on the device. One that meets the requirements of the law and one that charges faster. If it becomes a major issue, the law can be changed. I'd rather see several unnecessary tons of trash not end up in a landfill than to put it there for what is currently nothing more than an imaginary issue.
how is me talking about charger compatibility considered off topic?? lol
You must be new here.
Obviously you've upset a Samsung fanboi. An Apple fanboi will mod you as insightful shortly. I'm screwed as they will both mod me a troll for pointing this out.
The micro use on my phone has been used well more then hundreds of times, and shows no signs of failing.
Well I'm envious. My Samsung Galaxy S3 is right around two years old and the connector is failing. Last week it was only charging about half the time when I plugged it in. Now it's charging, but no longer shows up when I plug it into my computer. I've tried it on five different cables. Two of which are new.
we've seen signs of the next step in the laptop's evolution
Who would want a dual boot a laptop with an OS that has been dead for almost 20 years?
Grow the fuck up and learn some respect for a different perspective / belief.
I believe that god is seventeen giant, 65 foot long orange lizards, all who are named 'Ralph'. They have mile long, glittering prehensile cocks that drag behind them. Ralph^17 will sail invisibly across the sky once per hour, where all humans on the planet must turn to the South, and bow while chanting, 'Rubber Button' for one minute in order to avoid Ralph's divine and righteous wrath. His son is a stop sign three miles south of Yuma, and all who are able must journey to see him once in their life, lest they be dammed to spend Christmas vacation in New Jersey for all eternity. I demand the same respect that these goofy christian mono-godders get, up to and including wording on American money acknowledging Ralph^17's almighty farts. BOW, HEATHENS! I mock you sir, for failing to respect that some people's perspective and beliefs are that 'invisible shit isn't real, and that you should call out the Emperor as naked when he is'.
I find your idea intriguing and wold like to subscribe to your news letter.
plus the thought of spending eternity in New Jersey scares the bejeba... Sorry I meant stop sign out of me.
All hail Ralph.
"Outed" an assault rifle owner? I wasn't aware guns had been banned in the United States. Stop trying to act like perfectly legal actions are illegal to further your already-weak agenda.
Actually owning an "assault rifle" without proper permission is illegal. Assault rifles are whatb the military uses and can be scheduled automatic, fully automated, or have the ability to switch between those and/or semiautomatic
Assault weapons on the other hand are a political term for a semiautomatic rifle, shotgun, or handgun that looks big and scary. The Intratec Tec-9 is a perfect example. It's a large 9mm handgun with a large shroud around the barrel and looks lke a military weapon. Buts it's a very poor weapon, even by handgun standards. Unless you are firing it at point blank, you're probably better off throwing it at your target.
fuck a mars rover, gimme tax cutssssssssssssss
Or we can keep the program going. You can send me a self addressed, stamped envelope and I'll send you the fraction of a cent that you will have to contribute to the mars rover for this year.
If Compaq had put a cellular radio in an iPaq, we would have had Windows Phones circa 2000, LONG before the iPhone.
I don't know exactly when HP did this, but I had an iPaq phone in 2005. So it was certanly around before the iPhone. I think one of the reasons no other company made an iPhone like product was the thinking at the time was that mobile phones were expensive already. Who would have thought the masses were going to pay $600 -$800 for a phone.
It's an android phone. No one wants to steel that. Now if it was an iPhone then you should be worried.
Of course no one wants a "steel" phone, the 1950's are over. Everyone needs a titanium, gold, or platinum phone now.
No, he had those little rockets on each leg to do it if he couldn't get somebody else to do it.
Rockets? What rockets? I saw all three Star Wars movies, and even the holiday special, but I don't recall R2D2 having any rockets.
You're providing incomplete, one-sided calculations. So this is propaganda.
You mean the truth side? To add to that, all of these transfers from one mode of transportation to another will increase the likelihood of accidental spills. Plus a pipeline would be somewhat less prone to accidents.
Here's some balance, just for you:
The pipeline will kill all of the remaining pink unicorns left in the United States. Cause the sun to go supernova. Destabilize the Chinese economy to the point that thet will be forced to randomly nuke countries all over the world. And worst of all, be the sole catalyst for triggering the heat death of the universe.
Happy now?