I think any source is at risk. Relying on your data being in one location is always a risk.
Using the a cloud data storage location simply adds another layer of redundancy to help prevent you from losing your data. It is probably not the most reliable method, and it is almost certainly not the most secure.
It lacks any "copy protection". Don't worry, the (MP|RI)AA thought police will be around shortly to help correct your faulty logic. If this fails, then they will work with their friends in the government to put you someplace safe and quite where you cannot be a threat to others with your silly notions.
In general, employers, especially ones where unions are present, are a relatively small number of groups that wield a lot of organized power.
Conversely, unions, ostensibly*, represent the employees and potential employees, a group which usually has more total power than the employers, but lacks the organization to wield it effectively, often wielding it only to the extant that the weakest and most desperate individuals in the group are willing to wield it. Why? because the employers will take those first, as they are cheaper, and this makes those that were trying to get fair compensation, instead of just any compensation become the weaker and desperate*. Unions can balance the ability to wield power so that the employers are move likely to provide fair compensation. Large employers typically don't need this assistance.
* There are quite a few unions I've seen that seem to only absorb chunks their member's paychecks without actually providing any benefit in bargaining with the employer, effectively acting as a lamprey on capitalism. These days I'm not sure if this is the exception or the rule... At one time, it was the exception. ** there are exceptions to this rule, however, as this is the most profitable way to run a business (get the cheapest labor that will give you the desired quality), this tends to be the trend, and companies not following it will be less profitable, and therefore grow less than companies that do.
Nothing with WalMart *ever* looks altruistic. They are all about finding every way to shovel cost on to other people. I'd hate to see what would happen when they run out too much competition on a large scale instead of just locally - I suspect their prices will go through the roof.
Yep, and given that it is WalMart, the winning entry will be...
A coffee table shaped like a car from nascar, which only holds the cheapest, nastiest bears (destroying all others) and has a built in remote that automatically switches the TV to nascar or wrestling and maxes the volume.
In particular, the best reason it should be enforced by people, is that, many such rules have exceptions, and the people will understand them, the IDE won't.
Saying that they want inept code is idiotic, that wouldn't make business sense.
This is probably from the lobotomized-and-still-able-to-talk squad, i.e. their marketing department thinking "Hey, how can we make this more fun and exciting." And, as with most of their marking, it just comes out retarded.
Seriously, achievements were OK on MMOs, annoying on single player games, stupid on Slashdot... and RETARDED in an IDE. I hope this doesn't become a built-in component (or if it does, can be easily hidden). What a waste of time and insult to the devs.
Normally I'm in the "If you do nothing wrong then you have nothing to worry about." category, typically because the profit/gain of someone from giving you something to worry about in those cases is negligable.
Here, the profit/gain is still very small, but some groups pushing for it are known to heavily abuse their power, and do anything for a little gain, even at a massive and unfair cost to others.
Odd. SOPA actually pretty much died (or at least went into cardiac arrest) in the last couple days. All the talk up to now has already done something, this is just making it a bigger deal.
PIPA is still out, but with all this, for how long?
Well, most of the people I talked to were rather intelligent, so yes, they didn't have trouble understanding it. Except for the older individual (also very intelligent), who still seemed to want to try to defend that waste of paper and electrons.
Given that I don't stalk these people, I don't know what they'll do. It was hardly screaming into the void. Never did that with the DMCA, but then again, there wasn't this much effort put against the DMCA either.
Or are you trying to be defeatist in hopes of getting people to give up to help your pet bills get through. Maybe *you* are screaming into the void then.
Eh. As much as I hate piracy (and anyone who recognizes my name or sig will know I usually stand on the anti-piracy side of the argument), I have to say, until SOPA/PIPA/etc. are dead as a doornail, they can't blow their horns hard enough.
Funny, almost as many people I talked to noticed Google as noticed Wikipedia. They all had the same questions - wtf is SOAP and why do I care. I helped inform them as to what and why they cared, if they valued a useable internet, amongst other potential financial issues from SOPA.
Indeed. There were several people I was talking to, today about the wikipedia outage, who wanted to know what the big deal was (one even tried to defend SOPA). My general comparison was similar to the patriot act, but instead of dismantling checks and balance within the government some tenuous terrorism issues, it's dismantling checks on certain abusive businesses over piracy (which will be only minimally mitigated, at the cost of, probably billions, to other companies and individuals).
Consider: 1) In the past, when has MS EVER dropped an existing technology and rewritten it for a new version of something, rather than adapted/shoehorned it into the desired role? - NT? Nope - that was a ground-up write, but for a new project that didn't really align with existing software. It did end up replacing DOS for the basis of Windows, but that was just shoehorning one underlayer in place of another that itself was shoehorned into running things. -NTFS? Nope, just like NT.
MS adapts and evolves, they don't rewrite. Except they do now, for this. And they bring in something missing a lot of useful features. That strikes me as very odd, and a bit of a panic move.
With tools that repair and restore Windows, but run on Linux (or even MacOS?), MS is probably worried "Oh, people are going to start noticing there sometimes is something else fixing Windows than Windows, when something goes wrong, they might be interested in switching!"
It feels like a stretch, but this move is very out of character for MS. They aren't in the business of rewrites and dropping features.
Yeah, but they don't need to maintain the systems for all the time they don't use them, which the big boys can afford to do (usually because, with multiple projects, they'll be able to have much less downtime).
Ex: You need about "100 units" of CPU time per year. A computer that does this costs $500. Now, lets say, you have about a month from sufficient data to start, to the deadline. Now, you need a computer that can provide "1200 units" per year. This will probably be closer to $6000. And part of that money goes towards having it for 11 months where you don't need it. You might pay more ($1000 maybe?) to get the job done in a month, than with a computer that, given a year, could do it, but you get it done on time, which is probably worth that extra $500.
It may not be ideal for everyone (or even most), but for a smaller player to move up in the world, when they can't afford to have enough projects simultaneously running, that would make maintaining their own desired system financially viable, then this kind of CPU timesharing, is not a bad idea.
I think the SOPA blackout is useful because it helps inform the general public who is unaware of the problems and ramifications of SOPA and it's three vile siblings.
I doubt there is anyone on slashdot who is unaware of the ramifications, even those of use who support some copyright stuff, and who are against piracy, are aware that SOPA is a dangerous piece of legislation that will only harm society, and not help any artist.
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hexagons would probably tessellate even better, with less waste.
Ease of manufacture is still the case though. Cutting them out would be a bitch though.
I think any source is at risk. Relying on your data being in one location is always a risk.
Using the a cloud data storage location simply adds another layer of redundancy to help prevent you from losing your data. It is probably not the most reliable method, and it is almost certainly not the most secure.
It lacks any "copy protection". Don't worry, the (MP|RI)AA thought police will be around shortly to help correct your faulty logic. If this fails, then they will work with their friends in the government to put you someplace safe and quite where you cannot be a threat to others with your silly notions.
Problem is, it's not the executives or management, but those same wage slaves, that tend to shop there.
In general, employers, especially ones where unions are present, are a relatively small number of groups that wield a lot of organized power.
Conversely, unions, ostensibly*, represent the employees and potential employees, a group which usually has more total power than the employers, but lacks the organization to wield it effectively, often wielding it only to the extant that the weakest and most desperate individuals in the group are willing to wield it. Why? because the employers will take those first, as they are cheaper, and this makes those that were trying to get fair compensation, instead of just any compensation become the weaker and desperate*. Unions can balance the ability to wield power so that the employers are move likely to provide fair compensation. Large employers typically don't need this assistance.
* There are quite a few unions I've seen that seem to only absorb chunks their member's paychecks without actually providing any benefit in bargaining with the employer, effectively acting as a lamprey on capitalism. These days I'm not sure if this is the exception or the rule... At one time, it was the exception.
** there are exceptions to this rule, however, as this is the most profitable way to run a business (get the cheapest labor that will give you the desired quality), this tends to be the trend, and companies not following it will be less profitable, and therefore grow less than companies that do.
Nothing with WalMart *ever* looks altruistic. They are all about finding every way to shovel cost on to other people. I'd hate to see what would happen when they run out too much competition on a large scale instead of just locally - I suspect their prices will go through the roof.
* beers, not bears.
Ghaaa. I am the typo king. I meant "beer"
Yep, and given that it is WalMart, the winning entry will be...
A coffee table shaped like a car from nascar, which only holds the cheapest, nastiest bears (destroying all others) and has a built in remote that automatically switches the TV to nascar or wrestling and maxes the volume.
In particular, the best reason it should be enforced by people, is that, many such rules have exceptions, and the people will understand them, the IDE won't.
Saying that they want inept code is idiotic, that wouldn't make business sense.
This is probably from the lobotomized-and-still-able-to-talk squad, i.e. their marketing department thinking "Hey, how can we make this more fun and exciting." And, as with most of their marking, it just comes out retarded.
Seriously, achievements were OK on MMOs, annoying on single player games, stupid on Slashdot... and RETARDED in an IDE. I hope this doesn't become a built-in component (or if it does, can be easily hidden). What a waste of time and insult to the devs.
I agree, there are times where goto neatens up a bit of code without having to have all the brackets of if/else, or scrolling of function
as opposed to...
yeah, call me nuts, but I'll take the gotos in that situation.
Eye konw waht yuo maen.
Normally I'm in the "If you do nothing wrong then you have nothing to worry about." category, typically because the profit/gain of someone from giving you something to worry about in those cases is negligable.
Here, the profit/gain is still very small, but some groups pushing for it are known to heavily abuse their power, and do anything for a little gain, even at a massive and unfair cost to others.
I wish you were wrong, but some how, I think you are fairly close to the truth :-(
Odd. SOPA actually pretty much died (or at least went into cardiac arrest) in the last couple days. All the talk up to now has already done something, this is just making it a bigger deal.
PIPA is still out, but with all this, for how long?
LOL. yey for typos.
Well, most of the people I talked to were rather intelligent, so yes, they didn't have trouble understanding it. Except for the older individual (also very intelligent), who still seemed to want to try to defend that waste of paper and electrons.
Given that I don't stalk these people, I don't know what they'll do. It was hardly screaming into the void. Never did that with the DMCA, but then again, there wasn't this much effort put against the DMCA either.
Or are you trying to be defeatist in hopes of getting people to give up to help your pet bills get through. Maybe *you* are screaming into the void then.
Eh. As much as I hate piracy (and anyone who recognizes my name or sig will know I usually stand on the anti-piracy side of the argument), I have to say, until SOPA/PIPA/etc. are dead as a doornail, they can't blow their horns hard enough.
Oh, and it's blowhards, typically, not blowhorns.
Really?
Funny, almost as many people I talked to noticed Google as noticed Wikipedia. They all had the same questions - wtf is SOAP and why do I care. I helped inform them as to what and why they cared, if they valued a useable internet, amongst other potential financial issues from SOPA.
Indeed. There were several people I was talking to, today about the wikipedia outage, who wanted to know what the big deal was (one even tried to defend SOPA). My general comparison was similar to the patriot act, but instead of dismantling checks and balance within the government some tenuous terrorism issues, it's dismantling checks on certain abusive businesses over piracy (which will be only minimally mitigated, at the cost of, probably billions, to other companies and individuals).
Dear lord, I have a sentence in there that needs to be shot. It looks like a run-on that just WON'T DIE.
Sorry :-(
Nothing about leaving anyone in the dust.
Consider:
1) In the past, when has MS EVER dropped an existing technology and rewritten it for a new version of something, rather than adapted/shoehorned it into the desired role?
- NT? Nope - that was a ground-up write, but for a new project that didn't really align with existing software. It did end up replacing DOS for the basis of Windows, but that was just shoehorning one underlayer in place of another that itself was shoehorned into running things.
-NTFS? Nope, just like NT.
MS adapts and evolves, they don't rewrite. Except they do now, for this. And they bring in something missing a lot of useful features. That strikes me as very odd, and a bit of a panic move.
With tools that repair and restore Windows, but run on Linux (or even MacOS?), MS is probably worried "Oh, people are going to start noticing there sometimes is something else fixing Windows than Windows, when something goes wrong, they might be interested in switching!"
It feels like a stretch, but this move is very out of character for MS. They aren't in the business of rewrites and dropping features.
Yeah, but they don't need to maintain the systems for all the time they don't use them, which the big boys can afford to do (usually because, with multiple projects, they'll be able to have much less downtime).
Ex: You need about "100 units" of CPU time per year. A computer that does this costs $500. Now, lets say, you have about a month from sufficient data to start, to the deadline. Now, you need a computer that can provide "1200 units" per year. This will probably be closer to $6000. And part of that money goes towards having it for 11 months where you don't need it. You might pay more ($1000 maybe?) to get the job done in a month, than with a computer that, given a year, could do it, but you get it done on time, which is probably worth that extra $500.
It may not be ideal for everyone (or even most), but for a smaller player to move up in the world, when they can't afford to have enough projects simultaneously running, that would make maintaining their own desired system financially viable, then this kind of CPU timesharing, is not a bad idea.
I think the SOPA blackout is useful because it helps inform the general public who is unaware of the problems and ramifications of SOPA and it's three vile siblings.
I doubt there is anyone on slashdot who is unaware of the ramifications, even those of use who support some copyright stuff, and who are against piracy, are aware that SOPA is a dangerous piece of legislation that will only harm society, and not help any artist.